Training and the private sector : international comparisons / / edited by Lisa M. Lynch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968279103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1994
• ISBN: 9786611223816; 9781281223814; 1281223816; 9780226498157; 0226498158
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Collana: NBER Comparative labor markets series
• Altri autori (Persone): LynchLisa M
• Disciplina: 331.25/92
• Soggetti: Occupational training - United States; Occupational training
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Reconciling Markets and Institutions: The German Apprenticeship System -- 2. The British System of Youth Training: A Comparison with Germany -- 3. Strategic Adjustments in Training: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and German Automobile Industries -- 4. Employment-Based Training in Japanese Firms in Japan and in the United States: Experiences of Automobile Manufacturers -- 5. Productivity Changes without Formal Training -- 6. The Impact of Previous Training on Productivity and Wages -- 7. Determinants of Young Males' Schooling and Training Choices -- 8. Training at Work: A Comparison of U.S. and British Youths -- 9 Public- and Private-Sector Training of Young People in Britain -- 10. Vocational Education and Training in Britain and Norway -- 11. Returns to Within-Company Schooling of Employees: The Case of the Netherlands -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How can today's workforce keep pace with an increasingly competitive global economy? As new technologies rapidly transform the workplace, employee requirements are changing and workers must adapt to ; different working conditions. This volume compares new evidence on the returns from worker training in the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, Norway, and the Netherlands. The authors focus on Germany's widespread, formal apprenticeship programs; the U.S. system of learning-by-doing; Japan's low employee turnover and extensive company training; and Britain's government-led and school-based training schemes. The evidence shows that, overall, training in the workplace is more effective than training in schools. Moreover, even when U.S. firms spend as much on training as other countries do, their employees may still be less skilled than workers in Europe or Japan. Training and the Private Sector points to training programs in Germany, Japan, and other developed countries as models for creating a workforce in the United States that can compete more successfully in today's economy.

Children in colonial America / / edited by James Marten ; with a foreword by Philip J. Greven

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971963003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 9780814764466; 0814764460; 9780814795804; 0814795803
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Collana: Children and youth in America
• Altri autori (Persone): MartenJames Alan
• Disciplina: 305.230973/0903
• Soggetti: Children - United States - History - 16th century; Children - United States - History - 17th century; Children - United States - History - 18th century; Children - America - History - 18th century; United States Social life and customs To 1775; United States Social conditions To 1865; America Social life and customs; America Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. Race and colonization. 1. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- 2. Colonizing childhood: religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R. Todd Romero -- 3. Imperial ideas, colonial realities: enslaved children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 / Audra Abee Diptee -- Documents: "The younger sort reverence the elder": a pilgrim describes Indian childrearing ; "I have often been overcome while thinking on it": a slave boy's life -- Part II. Family and society. 4. Sibling relations in early American childhoods: a cross-cultural analysis / C. Dallett Hemphill -- 5. "I shall beat you, so that the Devil shall laugh at it": children, violence, and the courts in New Amsterdam / Mariah Adin -- 6. "Improved" and "very promising children": growing up rich in eighteenth-century South Carolina / Darcy Fryer -- Documents: "A dutiful and affectionate daughter": Eliza Lucas of South Carolina ; "A most agreeable family": Philip Vickers Fithian meets the Carters -- Part III. Cares and tribulations. 7. "Decrepit in their early youth": English children in Holland and Plymouth Plantation / John J. Navin -- 8. Idiocy and the construction of competence in Colonial Massachusetts / Parnel Wickham -- 9. "My constant attension on my sick child": the fragility of family life in the world of Elizabeth Drinker / Helena M. Wall -- Documents: "I had eight birds hatcht in one nest": Anne Bradstreet writes about parenthood -- Part IV. Becoming Americans. 10. From German Catholic girls to colonial American women: girlhood in the French Gulf south and the British mid-Atlantic colonies / Lauren Ann Kattner -- 11. "Let both sexes be carefully instructed": educating youth in colonial Philadelphia / Keith Pacholl -- 12. From saucy boys to Sons of Liberty: politicizing youth in pre-Revolutionary Boston / John L. Bell -- Documents: "Though I was often beaten for my play": the autobiography of John Barnard ; "A bookish inclination": Benjamin Franklin grows up -- In search of the historical child: questions for consideration.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the indigenous families whom they encountered, and those children's life experiences enrich and complicate our understanding of colonial America. Through essays, primary documents, and contemporary illustrations, Children in Colonial America examines the unique aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth a