Industrial Training and Technological Innovation: A Comparative and Historical Study (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415580304)

Taking an international and comparative perspective, this book focuses on the relationship between industrial training and technological change in three major global economies - the UK, USA and Japan. The contributors, an international group of leading researchers, look at the origins and development of training in these countries, and analyse the benefits resulting from the interaction of a skilled workforce and technological change.