Trade Unions and Workplace Training (eBook, ePUB)

Issues and International Perspectives
Redaktion: Cooney, Richard; Stuart, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines contemporary trade union approaches to vocational education, workplace training and skill development. It explores the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; the nature of union involvement in consultative mechanisms at a national and industry level; the nature of union involvement in skill formation at the workplace, and the development of mechanisms for the articulation of employee voice in the design, delivery and assessment of vocational training.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136306129
• Artikelnr.: 38246742

Autorenporträt

Richard Cooney is Lecturer in Management at Monash University, Australia and an associate editor of the journal Labour & Industry. His research focuses upon teamworking, workforce development and occupational regulation. Richard is co-convenor of the International Conference on Training, Employability and Employment (CTEE). Mark Stuart is Professor of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations and Director of the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change at the University of Leeds. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Work, Employment and Society and Chair of the International Section of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. His work focuses on union-led workplace skills development, employment restructuring and the modernisation of employment relations. Mark is co-convenor of the International Conference on Training, Employability and Employment (CTEE).

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction: Trade Unions and Vocational Education and Training in
Theory and Practice Richard Cooney and Mark Stuart Part 1: The Theory and
Practice of Unions and Training 2. Conceptualising Employee Voice on
Workplace Training Provision and Employability in Britain: An Emergent
Process Helen Rainbird 3. The Dimensions of Union Interest in Training:
Trade Unions and Workplace Training in Australia Richard Cooney Part 2:
Unions, Training and Social Institutions 4. Moving Beyond the Rhetoric?
Unions and Training in Canada: Challenges and Policy Perspectives Jean
Charest 5. Trade Unions and Workplace Training in France: Social Partners
and VET Francoise Le Deist and Jonathan Winterton 6. The Shifting Role of
Trade Unions in the German VET System Vera Trappmann 7. Trade Union
Involvement in Lifelong Learning in Norway Berit Kvalsvik Teige and Mark
Stuart Part 3: Training and Union Renewal 8. American Unions and the
Institutionalisation of Workplace Learning: Innovations for New Work
Systems and Labor Movement Renewal Daniel Marschall 9. Social Dialogue or
State Monologue? The Role of Unions in the UK Learning and Skills System
Bert Clough. Notes on Contributors. Notes. Index