ABSTRACT

This is Volume I of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1960, this is a study following the appointment Carr Committee, in 1956, of the and in the interest aroused by the Committee's Report Training for Skill-Recruitment and Training of young Workers in Industry (1958). The Carr Report and the discussion centred on it not only show the importance of the subject but also indicate the need for independent and detailed research in this field. Because certain features of apprenticeship are changing continuously and rapidly, it is inevitable that in a study of this kind some of the facts should be out of date by the time of publication.

chapter |10 pages

I Introduction

part |34 pages

Part I Background And Framework Of The Apprenticeship System

chapter |11 pages

II The Background

chapter |21 pages

III The Framework Of Apprenticeship

part |154 pages

Part II. The System In Operation

chapter |17 pages

IV The Number of Apprentices

chapter |16 pages

V Recruitment, Selection and Probation

chapter |29 pages

VI Practical Training and Productive Work

chapter |29 pages

VII Technical Education

chapter |7 pages

VIII Completion Of Apprenticeship

chapter |29 pages

IX Trade Unions and Apprenticeship

chapter |13 pages

X Apprenticeship In A Rural Area

A Comparison with Conditions in Bristol

chapter |12 pages

XI Conclusions