The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation

by Busemeyer, Marius R.; Trampusch, Christine

• ISBN13: 9780199599431
• ISBN10: 0199599432
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Education, skill formation, and training continue to be important areas of consideration for both public policy and research. This book examines the particular types of vocational training known as collective skill formation systems, whereby the training (often firm-based apprenticeships) is collectively organized by businesses and unions with state support and cooperation in execution, finance, and monitoring. With contributions from leading academics, this book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the varying historical origins of, and recent developments in, vocational training systems, offering in-depth studies on coordinated market economies, namely Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Denmark. It also contains comparative chapters that analyse how these countries react to common challenges such as deindustrialization, labour market stratification, academic drift, gender inequalities, and Europeanization. Whereas previous research has focused on the differences between various kinds of skill regimes, this book focuses on explaining institutional variety within the group of collective skill formation systems. The development of skill formation systems is regarded as a dynamic political process, dependent on the outcome of various political struggles regarding such matters as institutional design and transformations during critical junctures in historical development.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xix
List of Tables	p. xxi
Notes on Contributors	p. xxiii
Abbreviations	p. xxv
Introduction
The Comparative Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation	p. 3
Country Studies
Political Institutions and the Origins of Collective Skill Formation Systems	p. 41
Institutional Change in German Vocational Training: From Collectivism toward Segmentalism	p. 68
The Long Road to Collective Skill Formation in the Netherlands	p. 101
Educational Policy Actors as Stakeholders in the Development of the Collective Skill System: The Case of Switzerland	p. 126
Austrian Corporatism and Institutional Change in the Relationship between Apprenticeship Training and School-Based VET	p. 150
Continued Collectivism: The Role of Trade Self-Management and the Social Democratic Party in Danish Vocational Education and Training	p. 179
Crosscutting Topics and Contemporary Challenges
Collective Skill Systems, Wage Bargaining, and Labor Market Stratification	p. 205
The Link between Vocational Training and Higher Education in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany	p. 234
Gendered Consequences of Vocational Training	p. 259
Europeanization and the Varying Responses in Collective Skill Systems	p. 284
Concluding Essay
Skills and Politics: General and Specific	p. 317
Index	p. 353
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