In the current economic crisis which has given rise to high and persisting levels of unemployment, the relations between education and training, on the one hand, and work and employment, on the other, have been the object of lively debates and have stimulated a large body of research. This text analyzes the literature in this field and establishes an institutional and intellectual cartography for Britain, Germany and Italy. It examines the multiple connections between education, broadly defined, and work, through an analysis of the literature on the transition from school to work, on...