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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsReassessing the core assumptions of human capital theory - beyond general and specific skills -Fattenin' frogs for snakes? company investments in job skills training, D. Knoke, Song Yang; Hiring and training in Korean establishments - do employers substitute making for buying?, Wonsup Chang; regulating affective labor - communication skills training in the health care industry, A.M. Ducey et al; what skills to train? an institutional analysis of training consulting organizations, Xiaowei Luo; job training as business and community development - reframing theory and practice, M.E. Boyle, J. Boguslaw. Inducing employers to provide skills - the connection between training policies and investment in general skills, L. Cruz-Castro, G. Conlon; vocational training and the transition to the first job in Germany - new risks at labor market entry?, D. Konietzka; "Voluntarily put themselves in harm's way" - the 'bait-and-switch' of safety training in the construction industry, K. Paap. Training and persistent inequalities - job training for women leaving welfare - assessing interest in nontraditional employment, C. Negrey et al; contextual analysis of company job training - an investigation of the 1996 national organizations survey, Song Yang; the effects of age group, technology, and social policy on adult women's training participation, P.A. Simpson, L.K. Stroh.
