The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation
Marius R. Busemeyer and Christine Trampusch
Abstract
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 trainin ... More
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 analyze how these countries react to common challenges such as deindustrialization, labor 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.
Keywords:
skill formation systems,
varieties of capitalism,
liberal market economy,
coordinated market economy,
historical institutionalism,
collective action,
typologies,
firms,
intermediary associations,
political parties
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199599431 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599431.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Marius R. Busemeyer, editor
Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz
Christine Trampusch, editor
Professor of International Comparative Political Economy and Economic Sociology, University of Cologne
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