CONTENTS
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Still a Model for the Industrialized Countries?
Peeper D. Culpepper
Part I THREATS TO THE GERMAN SYSTEM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 1: The German Apprenticeship System under Strain
Karin Wagner
Chapter 2: Craft Production in Crisis: Industrial Restructuring in Germany during the 1990s
Gary Herrigel and Charles F Sabel
Chapter 3: The German Skill-Creation System and Team-Based Production: Competitive Asset or Liability?
David Finegold and Karin Wagner
Contents
Part II DISTRIBUTIVE OUTCOMES OF THE GERMAN TRAINING SYSTEM
Chapter 4: Vocational Training and Job Mobility in Comparative Perspective
Thomas Hinz
Chapter 5: Gender and Skills: Distributive Ramifications of the German Skill System
Helga Kruger
Chapter 6: Continuing Occupational Training in an Aging German Economy
Jutta Gatter
PART III INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTS WITH IN-FIRM TRAINING
Chapter 7: Individual Choice, Collective Action, and the Problem of Training Reform: Insights from France and Eastern Germany
Pepper D. Culpepper
Chapter 8: Sectoral Training Initiatives in the US: Building Blocks of a New Workforce Preparation System?
Eric Parker and ]oel Rogers
Chapter 9: Building a Governance Structure for Training? Employers, Government and the TEC Experiment in Britain
Stewart Wood
Conclusion: The Future of the German Skill-Creation
System: Conclusions and Policy Options
David Finegold
Bibliography
Index