Training Retraining And Labour Market Adjustment

Developments in and results of government sponsored retraining programmes in Western Europe. Unemployment rates and occupational structure. Admission requirements and duration of retraining programmes. Training allowance. In plant training. Training older workers, young workers, women and minority groups. Problems of financing, trade unions and effect of government policy on labour demand. Labour mobility, regional planning. Role of employment services.

Essays on labour market adjustment to structural change and technological change in Canada - examines the role of education and training in view of changing skill requirements; considers the effects on employment and wages; comments on the role of labour legislation, trade unions and collective bargaining in dealing with layoffs, redundancy and plant shutdown. References, statistical tables.

Presents a set of findings and a plan of action dealing with human resource issues in Ontario. Examines the labour adjustment approaches of four countries: Japan, Sweden, West Germany and the United States. Covers trends from 1946 to 1989.

Are government-sponsored training programs a route to greater management control of the workplace, or to labour freedom? Today as at the time of the book's publication in 1992, training is prominent in public policy and political life. The authors in this collection maintain that it is central to management initiatives aimed at the restructuring of the workplace, and that governments rely on it as a substitute for coherent industrial policy. On the other hand, it can enhance workers' skills, improve working conditions and build a more a more democratic working life. Training for What? is a collection of papers examining occupational training as a tool of ongoing political struggle in the workplace. An Our Schools/Our Selves book.