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The sociology of job training

Bills, David B., (1953-)

The sociology of job training

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The sociology of job trainingedited by David B. Bills.
other author:	Bills, David B.,
Published:	Amsterdam ;JAI,2003.
Description:	1 online resource (320 p.)
Subject:	Occupational trainingSocial aspects.
Online resource:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0277-2833/12
ISBN:	9781849501569 (electronic bk.)

The sociology of job training
The sociology of job training[electronic resource] /edited by David B. Bills. - Amsterdam ;JAI,2003. - 1 online resource (320 p.) - Research in the sociology of work,v. 120277-2833 ;. - Research in the sociology of work ;v. 10..

Includes bibliographical references.

Fattenin' frogs for snakes? Company investments in job skills training / David Knoke and SongYang -- Hiring and training in Korean establishments / Wonsup Chang -- Regulating affective labor /Ariel M. Ducey, Heather Gautney and Dominic Wetzel -- What skills to train? an institutional analysis of training consulting organizations / Xiaowei Luo -- Job training as business and community development: reframing theory and practice / Mary Ellen Boyle and Janet Boguslaw -- The connection between training policies and investment in general skills / Laura Cruz-Castro and Gavan Conlon -- Vocational trainikng and the transition to the first job in Germany--new risks at labour market entry? / Dirk Komietzka -- Voluntary put themselves in Harm's way / Kris Paap -- Job training for women leaving welfare: assessing interest in non-traditional employment / Cynthia Negrey .. et al. -- Contextualanalyses of company job training / Song Yang -- The effects of age group, technology and social policy on adult women's training participation / Patricia A. Simpson andLinda K. Stroh.

How workers learn how to do their jobs is central to an understanding of the changing nature of work in post-industrial society. The role of job or worker training has, however, been underdeveloped in sociological theories of work and the labor market. By most accounts, the ongoing penetration of information technology into the workplace, a transformed socioeconomic lifecourse, managerial preferences for high performance organizations, and the globalization of labour markets have collectively rendered traditional models of skill acquisition badly outmoded. This volume offers sophisticated sociological analyses of job training that go well beyond standard accounts of general versus specific skills and overly simple assumptions about employer and worker behaviour. The chapters examinesuch topics as the incentives available to employers toprovide training, socially structured inequalities in access to training, and cross-societal differences in training institutions. They breaknewground in investigating the content of job training as well as itsincidence and duration. The contributors to the volume bring to bear both qualitative case study and quantitative research to explorethe emerging role of training in post-industrial labor markets.

ISBN: 9781849501569 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

533338
Occupational training
--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: HD6951 / .R47 v.12

Dewey Class. No.: 306.36

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 331

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