Trade Unions and Workplace Training

<p><em>Trade Unions and Workplace Training</em> examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education workplace training and skill development. It reflects upon: the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; the nature of union involvement in consultative mechanisms at a national and industry level; the nature of union involvement in skill formation at the workplace; and the development of mechanisms for the articulation of employee voice in the design delivery and assessment of vocational training.</p><p>The book provides a collection of studies of Canada Australia United States United Kingdom France Germany and Norway by leading researchers in the field. Distinctive accessible and original all the chapters are written in a style that illustrates the relevance of academic debates and research data to practice and the book includes a number of the chapters written by trade union practitioners.</p>