ABSTRACT
Trade Unions and Workplace Training examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education, workplace training and skill development. It reflects upon: 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.
The book provides a collection of studies of Canada, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Norway by leading researchers in the field. Distinctive, accessible and original, all the chapters are written in a style that illustrates the relevance of academic debates and research data to practice and the book includes a number of the chapters written by trade union practitioners.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|18 pages
Introduction
part I|35 pages
The Theory and Practice of Unions and Training
chapter 2|17 pages
Conceptualising Employee Voice on Workplace Training Provision and Employability in Britain
chapter 3|15 pages
The Dimensions of Union Interest in Training
part II|87 pages
Unions, Training, and Social Institutions
chapter 4|16 pages
Moving beyond the Rhetoric?
part III|44 pages
Training and Union Renewal