ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the management practices of schemes in response to Youth Training Scheme (YTS) and the day to day implications of these practices for vocationalism. It focuses on data collected in a survey of YTS managing agents in Devon, Cornwall and the city of Liverpool between August 1987 and April 1988. With the diversity of organizations and the different Modes of YTS it was possible for managing agents to have different approaches and attitudes towards young people. Under the Manpower Services Commission training was delivered through an agency structure, sub-contracted to employers and a motley collection of training organizations. A prime issue in a capitalist economy is the control of labour and youth training schemes are central in the management and supervision of young people’s labour. The development of an employer-led YTS has raised issues about the relationship between labour, production and its reward. With the introduction of employer-led YTS the differences between training and producing became blurred.
