Education and Work in Great Britain, Germany and Italy

An apparently contradictory aspect of this relationship lies in the fact that although the workplace has been the primary site of vocational education, nevertheless skills acquired through it have been widely recognised in the labour market. Thus apprenticeship training produces 'transferable skills…

In explaining these contradictory phenomena, attention is drawn to the continuous growth of social problems as a result of economic change, which increasingly forces individuals and entire peer groups to develop new modes of reproducing and constructing their identities. The diversification of life …

Much of the work of economists in Britain over the last twenty years on the relationship between education and work has concentrated on the problems of vocational training and the failings of the British system. The debate has beenstrongly influenced by the structure of the national system of vocati…