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Contributions by leading European and US scholars from different academic backgrounds
Innovative and interdisciplinary approach, comparing politics and history of collective skill formation systems
Provides country studies as well as comparative chapters
Coherent theoretical framework that accounts for differences with collective skill formation systems, but which is applicable to different kinds of skill systems as well
Dialogue with varieties of capitalism debate



Education, skill formation, and training continue to be important areas of consideration for both public policy and research. This book examines the particular types of vocational training known as collective skill formation systems, whereby the training (often firm-based apprenticeships) is collectively organized by businesses and unions with state support and cooperation in execution, finance, and monitoring.

With contributions from leading academics, this book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the varying historical origins of, and recent developments in, vocational training systems, offering in-depth studies on coordinated market economies, namely Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Denmark. It also contains comparative chapters that analyse how these countries react to common challenges such as deindustrialization, labour market stratification, academic drift, gender inequalities, and Europeanization.

Whereas previous research has focused on the differences between various kinds of skill regimes, this book focuses on explaining institutional variety within the group of collective skill formation systems. The development of skill formation systems is regarded as a dynamic political process, dependent on the outcome of various political struggles regarding such matters as institutional design and transformations during critical junctures in historical development.



Table of Contents
Foreword
Foreword, Kathleen Thelen
Introduction
1: Introduction: The Comparative Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation, Marius R. Busemeyer, Christine Trampusch
Section I: Country Studies
2: Vocational Training and the Origins of Coordination: Specific Skills and the Politics of Collective Action, Cathie Jo Martin
3: Institutional Change in German Vocational Training: From Collectivism towards Segmentalism, Kathleen Thelen, Marius R. Busemeyer
4: The Development of the Vocational Training System in the Netherlands, Karen Anderson, Dennie Oude Nijhuis
5: Educational Policy Actors as Stakeholders in the Development of the Collective Skills System: The Case of Switzerland, Philipp Gonon, Markus Maurer
6: Austrian Corporatism and Institutional Change in the Relationship between Apprenticeship Training and School-Based VET, Lukas Graf, Lorenz Lassnigg, Justin Powell
7: The Social Partners and the Social Democratic Party in the Continuation of a Collective Skill System in Denmark, Moira Nelson
Section II: Crosscutting Topics and Contemporary Challenges
8: Collective Skill Systems, Wage Bargaining, and Labor Market Stratification, Marius R. Busemeyer, Torben Iversen
9: The Links between Vocational Training and Higher Education in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany, Rita Nikolai, Christian Ebner
10: Gendered Consequences of Vocational Training, Margarita Estévez-Abe
11: Europeanization and the Varying Responses in Collective Skill Systems, Justin Powell, Christine Trampusch
Conclusion
12: Skills and Politics: General and Specific, Wolfgang Streeck