High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation

by Phillip Brown, Andy Green, Hugh Lauder

Overview

Today, economic success is seen as depending on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of national routes to a 'high skill' economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199244201
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2001
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Phillip Brown is a Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He trained as a teacher and youth worker before going to University College, Swansea in South Wales to study for a Ph.D. After working as a researcher at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, he took a lectureship in Industrial Sociology at the University of Kent. Andy Green is Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for the Wider Benefits of Learning at the Institute of Education. He previously taught in further education colleges in London and the USA and was Senior Lecturer in Education History and Policy at South Thames Polytechnic (1988-90) before joining the Institute of Education in 1990. He has acted as a consultant for a range of national and international bodies including the DFEE, the DTI, the National Skills Task Force, OECD, and CEDEFOP. Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy in the Education Department, University of Bath. He taught in London schools between 1970 and 1976 and was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand from 1979-90. From 1990-5, he was Professor of Education at Victoria University of Wellington.

Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Skill Formation in the Twenty-First Century, Phillip BrownIntroductionHumsn Capital TheoryWhat's Wrong with Human Capital TheoryThe Political Economy of High Skill FormtionThe Seven C's of High Skill FormationA Note on Comparative Method2. Models of High Skills in National Competition Strategies, Andy Green and Akiko SakamotoPolicy Arguments for High SkillsGermany - The High Skills Society ModelSingapore - The Developmental High Skills ModelJapan - The High Skills Manufacturing ModelTHe UK - High Skills/Low Skills ModelSkill Formation Systems and the Global Economy3. Innovation, Skill Diffusion, and Social Exclusion, Hugh LauderIntroductionTHe Nature of Innovation and Skill DiffusionEducational Training and Labour Market RegimesLabour Market Regimes and ExclusionA Comparative Analysis of ET Systems, Labour Market Structures, and Skill DiffusionThe Occupational Labour MarketThe Internal Labour MarketThe Guided Labour MarketThe Flexible Labour MarketPolarization of Incomes, Skill Acquisition, and DiffusionTraining and Skill Foundations for Moving Up the Value ChainConclusion4. Globalization, Multinationals, and the Labour Market, Hugh Lauder, with Yadollah MehralizadehIntroductionCompeting Hypotheses Concerning GlobalizationGlobalization and the German Occupational Labour MarketGlobalization and the Korean Internal Labour MarketGlobalization and Singapore's Guided Labour MarketGlobalization and Britain's Flexible Labour MarketHigh-Performance Work Practices and Key SkillsThe Case StudyConclusionAppendix 1: List of Organizations InterviewedIntroductionThe Future of Skill Formation: Pressure Points and Trade-OffsThe Impact of GlobalizationUpgrading the Skills of the WorkforceOpportunity and Social InclusionChanging Models of the WorkerConclusionReferencesReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index