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Education Vocational Guidance

Training For What?

Labour Perspectives on Job Training

edited by Nancy Jackson

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1992
Category
Vocational Guidance, Labor & Industrial Relations
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921908128
    Publish Date
    Jan 1992
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

Are government-sponsored training programs a route to greater management control of the workplace, or to labour freedom?
Today as at the time of the book's publication in 1992, training is prominent in public policy and political life. The authors in this collection maintain that it is central to management initiatives aimed at the restructuring of the workplace, and that governments rely on it as a substitute for coherent industrial policy. On the other hand, it can enhance workers' skills, improve working conditions and build a more a more democratic working life.
Training for What? is a collection of papers examining occupational training as a tool of ongoing political struggle in the workplace.
An Our Schools/Our Selves book.

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NANCY JACKSON teaches in the Faculty of Education at McGill University.

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