Are Skills the Answer? (the Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries)

ISBN-13: 9780199241118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 296 str.

David Finegold; Mari Sako; Colin Crouch

Opis

While the acquisition of skills has become a major public need, there is increasing dependence for their provision on individual firms. These firms can have no responsibility for general needs with government action being restricted to residual care for the unemployed rather than contributing at the leading edge of advanced skills policy. The authors argue that public agencies must find new ways of working with the business sector, acquiring expertise and authority through such means as supporting skills standards and taking the lead in the certification of employers as trainers.

O autorze

Colin Crouch is Professor of Sociology, European University Institute, and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. David Finegold is Professor at the School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Mari Sako is Professor of International Business, Said Business School, University of Oxford.