Trade Unions and Workplace Training : International Perspectives

This book examines contemporary trade union approaches to vocational education, workplace training and skill development. It explores the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; the nature of union involvement in consultative mechanisms at a national and industry level; the nature of union involvement in skill formation at the workplace, and the development of mechanisms for the articulation of employee voice in the design, delivery and assessment of vocational training. Distinctive, accessible and original, all the chapters are written in a style that illustrates the relevance of academic debates and research data to practice and the book includes a number of the chapters written by Trade union practitioners.Cooney, Richard T. is the author of 'Trade Unions and Workplace Training : International Perspectives', published 2009 under ISBN 9780415443340 and ISBN 0415443342.