03155nam 22003852a 450 991082268080332120230828211554.01-57181-144-3(CKB)2560000000322532(MH)008253721-6(MiAaPQ)EBC6141895(EXLCZ)99256000000032253219990322d1999 uy 0engThe German skills machine sustaining comparative advantage in a global economy /edited by Pepper D. Culpepper and David Finegold[electronic resource]New York Berghahn Books19991 online resource (xii, 482 p. )Policies and institutions ;v. 3Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-468) and index.Introduction: Still a Model for the Industrialized Countries? /Pepper D. Culpepper --Threats to the German System in Comparative Perspective --The German Apprenticeship System under Strain /Karin Wagner --Craft Production in Crisis: Industrial Restructuring in Germany during the 1990s /Gary Herrigel, Charles F. Sabel --The German Skill-Creation System and Team-Based Production: Competitive Asset or Liability? /David Finegold, Karin Wagner --Distributive Outcomes of the German Training System --Vocational Training and Job Mobility in Comparative Perspective /Thomas Hinz --Gender and Skills: Distributive Ramifications of the German Skill System /Helga Kruger --Continuing Occupational Training in an Aging German Economy /Jutta Gatter --International Experiments with In-Firm Training --Individual Choice, Collective Action, and the Problem of Training Reform: Insights from France and Eastern Germany /Pepper D. Culpepper --Sectoral Training Initiatives in the US: Building Blocks of a New Workforce Preparation System? /Eric Parker, Joel Rogers --Building a Governance Structure for Training? Employers, Government and the TEC Experiment in Britain /Stewart Wood --Conclusion: The Future of the German Skill-Creation System: Conclusions and Policy Options /David Finegold."Combining an examination of the competitiveness of the German training system with an analysis of the robustness of the political institutions that support it, this volume seeks to understand the extent to which the German system for imparting craft skills can adjust to changes in the organization of production in the advanced industrial states."--Jacket.Occupational trainingGermanyVocational educationGermanyOccupational trainingVocational education331.25/92/0943Culpepper Pepper D1717797Finegold David728221DLCDLCBOOK9910822680803321The German skills machine4114330UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress