THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COLLECTIVE SKILL FORMATION BUSEMEYER M.R. TRAMPUSCH C. Księgarnia

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.

Marius R. Busemeyer is a Professor of Political Science and head of an Emmy Noether research group at the University of Konstanz. Prior to this, he was a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of education regimes and welfare states, public spending, individual social policy preferences, and theories of institutional change.

Christine Trampusch is currently Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Berne. Starting in July 2011, she will be Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Economic Sociology at the University of Cologne. Her research centers on the study of the origins and changes of welfare states, industrial relations, and skill formation systems, in a historical and comparative perspective.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Foreword, Kathleen Thelen
Introduction

1. Introduction: The Comparative Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation, Marius R. Busemeyer, Christine Trampusch

Section I: Country Studies

2. Vocational Training and the Origins of Coordination: Specific Skills and the Politics of Collective Action, Cathie Jo Martin
3. Institutional Change in German Vocational Training: From Collectivism towards Segmentalism, Kathleen Thelen, Marius R. Busemeyer
4. The Development of the Vocational Training System in the Netherlands, Karen Anderson, Dennie Oude Nijhuis
5. Educational Policy Actors as Stakeholders in the Development of the Collective Skills System: The Case of Switzerland, Philipp Gonon, Markus Maurer
6. Austrian Corporatism and Institutional Change in the Relationship between Apprenticeship Training and School-Based VET, Justin Powell, Lukas Graf, Lorenz Lassnigg
7. The Social Partners and the Social Democratic Party in the Continuation of a Collective Skill System in Denmark, Moira Nelson

Section II: Crosscutting Topics and Contemporary Challenges

8. Collective Skill Systems, Wage Bargaining, and Labor Market Stratification, Marius R. Busemeyer, Torben Iversen
9. The Links between Vocational Training and Higher Education in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany, Rita Nikolai, Christian Ebner
10. Gendered Consequences of Vocational Training, Margarita Estevez-Abe
11. Europeanization and the Varying Responses in Collective Skill Systems, Justin Powell, Christine Trampusch
Conclusion
12. Skills and Politics: General and Specific, Wolfgang Streeck

380 pages, Hardcover

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