Learning and Work in the Risk Society: Lessons for the Labour Markets of Europe from Eastern Germany (Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312231601 ISBN 13: 9780312231606

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Based on a unique comparative analysis of the education and work experiences of those who lived through the political and labor market changes of the transition to post-communism, the authors argue that the social polarizations and erosion of the traditional "dual system" of vocational education and training in Eastern Germany may portend the future for the West. The issues raised have considerable resonances with the problems and contradictions which have beset British education, training, and labor market policy over the last decade.

About the Author:

Karen Evans is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Surrey, UK.

Review:

'The high-quality empirical and theoretically grounded comparative research developed in this excellent book is...timely in informing current academic and policy debate.' - Denis Gleeson, University of Warwick