Education and Work in Great Britain, Germany and Italy

Annette Jobert, Catherine Marry, Helen Rainbird, Lucie Tanguy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780415153331
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134687336
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This volume examines the multiple connections between education, broadly defined, and work, through an analysis of the literature on the transition from school to work, on vocational training and on the labour market. It shows that concepts such as skill, unemployment rates, young people and the transition from school to work are socially constructed and are thought about in ways which are nationally specific. This book is essential reading for students of European training systems and for those conducting comparative European research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Comparisons Between an Area of Research in Germany, Great Britain and Italy
• 2 Education, Vocational Training and Employment in Germany
• 3 Thirty Years of the Sociology of Education
• 4 Relationships Between the Educational and Employment Systems
• 5 Social Change and the Modernisation of School-to-Work Transitions
• 6 The Relationship Between Education and Employment in German Industrial Sociology
• 7 Labour Market Transitions and Dynamics of Transitions in Germany
• 8 Institutions and the Market
• 9 ‘The Transition from School to Work’ and its Heirs
• 10 Labour Market Approaches to the Study of the Relationship Between Education and (Un)Employment in the United Kingdom
• 11 Is this a Way of Understanding Education–Work Relations?
• 12 The Social Construction of Skill
• 13 The Approaches of Economists to the Relationship between Training and Work
• 14 Employment, Education and Training in Italy
• 15 Analysis of Research in the Sociology of Education: 1960–1990
• 16 Youth Employment and Public Action in Italy
• 17 Connections between Collective Bargaining, Job Training and Educational Research in Italy
• 18 Industrial Development and Training Policies
• 19 Socio-Economic Approaches to the Labour Market
• Index