Trade Unions and Vocational Education and Training: Questions of Strategy and Identity(1). From: Labour & Industry | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: Ewer, Peter | COPYRIGHT 2000 Centre For Workplace Culture Change. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Introduction

Over ten years ago the trade union movement entered the grandiose `national training reform agenda', promising itself a high skill, high wage economy and a training system accessible to all. The hopes attached to training reform were prodigious - the democratisation of work, an end to Taylorism, and a flexible workforce able to adjust to the dislocations of international competition through `lifetime learning'.

As the labour market becomes increa...

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