The authors examine labor organizing around the training issue in the United States and the United Kingdom. The best practice examples presented are the Machine Action Project in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Inverclyde Training Trust in the Glasgow, Scotland region. In both cases, labor built…
Studies of youth employment and training have tended to emphasise the importance of regional differences between labour markets, yet to date there have been few studies of rural areas. Rural areas themselves differ considerably depending upon the nature of the local geography and economy. Thus, the …
Tom Bailey correctly identifies the greatest challenges to successfully transforming the idea of youth apprenticeship into reality. Although his cautions are well founded, they do not justify the turn toward alternative approaches that he recommends, especially not before demonstration projects that…
Source:Human Resource Development Quarterly
(1993)
U.S. employers and their workers underinvest in employer training. Underinvestment occurs because training generates externalities, because the tax system is biased against training investments, because turnover is high, and because most workers lack access to loans and are unable to finance general…
