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Download full textShewring, Fiona – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
The place of women in the manual trades is examined in this paper, which sets out strategies for encouraging them to study and work in areas such as building and construction. Such strategies include introductory and pre-apprenticeships courses, clustering female students, and support from teachers in opening up job opportunities. This paper is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Beattie, Andy – 1997
A British study verified whether the educational participation of Ford Motor Company's manual workers significantly increased following introduction of the Employee Development and Assistance Program (EDAP) and identified the features that contributed to its success. Over the past 15 years, studies of working class adults' educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blue Collar Occupations, Corporate Education, Foreign Countries
Taveggia, Thomas C.; Hedley, R. Alan – 1975
The paper is concerned with determining from a large sample of British industrial workers, whether there is an unconditional relationship between job specialization and worker dissatisfaction, or a relationship contingent on middle-class work values. The recent work literature includes three contradictory propositions relating job specialization…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Data Analysis, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries
