High Skills Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation

by Brown, Phillip; Green, Andy; Lauder, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780199244201
• ISBN10: 0199244200
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Today, economic success is seen as depending on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of national routes to a 'high skill' economy.

Author Biography

Phillip Brown is a Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He trained as a teacher and youth worker before going to University College, Swansea in South Wales to study for a Ph.D. After working as a researcher at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, he took a lectureship in Industrial Sociology at the University of Kent. Andy Green is Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for the Wider Benefits of Learning at the Institute of Education. He previously taught in further education colleges in London and the USA and was Senior Lecturer in Education History and Policy at South Thames Polytechnic (1988-90) before joining the Institute of Education in 1990. He has acted as a consultant for a range of national and international bodies including the DFEE, the DTI, the National Skills Task Force, OECD, and CEDEFOP. Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy in the Education Department, University of Bath. He taught in London schools between 1970 and 1976 and was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand from 1979-90. From 1990-5, he was Professor of Education at Victoria University of Wellington.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Skill Formation in the Twenty-First Century	1	(55)
Phillip Brown
Introduction	1	(2)
Human Capital Theory	3	(10)
What's Wrong with Human Capital Theory	13	(16)
The Political Economy of High Skills	29	(5)
The Seven C's of High Skill Formation	34	(18)
A Note on Comparative Method	52	(4)
Models of High Skills in National Competition Strategies	56	(105)
Andy Green
Akiko Sakamoto
Policy Arguments for High Skills	56	(11)
Germany-The High Skills Society Model	67	(22)
Singapore-The Developmental High Skills Model	89	(16)
Japan-The High Skills Manufacturing Model	105	(18)
The UK-High Skills/Low Skills Model	123	(19)
Skill Formation Systems and the Global Economy	142	(19)
Innovation, Skill Diffusion, and Social Exclusion	161	(43)
Hugh Lauder
Introduction	161	(2)
The Nature of Innovation and Skill Diffusion	163	(1)
Education Training and Labour Market Regimes	164	(2)
Labour Market Regimes and Exclusion	166	(1)
A Comparative Analysis of ET Systems, Labour Market Structures, and Skill Diffusion	167	(1)
The Occupational Labour Market	167	(8)
The Internal Labour Market	175	(8)
The Guided Labour Market	183	(8)
The Flexible Labour Market	191	(5)
Polarization of Incomes, Skill Acquisition, and Diffusion	196	(2)
Training and Skill Foundations for Moving Up the Value Chain	198	(3)
Conclusion	201	(3)
Globalization, Multinationals, and the Labour Market	204	(31)
Hugh Lauder
Yadollah Mehralizadeh
Introduction	204	(1)
Competing Hypotheses Concerning Globalization	205	(3)
Globalization and the German Occupational Labour Market	208	(3)
Globalization and the Korean Internal Labour Market	211	(6)
Globalization and Singapore's Guided Labour Market	217	(5)
Globalization and Britain's Flexible Labour Market	222	(3)
High-Performance Work Practices and Key Skills	225	(2)
The Case Study	227	(6)
Conclusion	233	(2)
Globalization and the Political Economy of High Skills	235	(28)
Phillip Brown
Introduction	235	(6)
The Future of Skill Formation: Pressure Points and Trade-Offs	241	(2)
The Impact of Globalization	243	(5)
Upgrading the Skills of the Workforce	248	(4)
Opportunity and Social Inclusion	252	(6)
Changing Models of the Worker	258	(3)
Conclusion	261	(2)
Appendix: List of Organizations Interviewed	263	(6)
References	269	(24)
Author Index	293	(6)
Subject Index	299