Publications

Leite, E. Monteiro
Work, qualification and training: vulnerability and modern age issues

 

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2003
290 p. (On Arts and Crafts 4)

ISBN 92-9088-149-
US$ 20.00

(Full text only available in Spanish in pdf format)

 

This book gathers essays and reports written in the '80s and '90s and it particularly focuses on two points of view: technological modernisation and social vulnerability, two aspects which in Brazil - and certainly in many other Latin American countries - challenge public policies trainers and managers, especially in the fields of work and vocational training.

The texts included in the first part discuss modern life issues: the process of introducing new equipment, methods and processes in industry and its impact on work and vocational qualification. This topic pervaded academic research and was the concern of vocational training bodies in the '80s. Is unemployment created by new technologies? Do new technologies disqualify? These were frequently asked questions in the debate set up at the time.

The second part deals with the other side of the coin: vulnerability and social exclusion. These aspects, which have determined the model of development and society in Brazil since colonization, become clearer as from the '80s, when the country begins its modernisation and democratisation processes. Although these seem to be old problems, they reappear and get worse in that process creating an extra challenge for trainers and public managers.

The third part includes analyses concerning public policy issues on work and qualification which are based on the implementation and management of the National Plan for Worker Qualification (PLANFOR) between 1995 and 2002. This project involved thousands of actors and training agencies throughout the country as it helped qualify millions of people, put the tripartism ideal into practice, taught great lessons and created huge challenges.

 

INDEX

Preface

I. Modern age: technological innovation, work and qualifications

I.1. From "standard" to "polyvalent" worker. New frontiers in industrial work qualification?
I.2. Work and qualification: the working class goes to school
I.3. Industrial restructuring, productive chains and qualification in Brazil: convergent trajectories, "intelligent" tertiarisation?

II. Vulnerability: work and qualification in a context of poverty and social exclusion

II.1. The "Social" function of the National Industrial Training Service (SENAI): the evolution of community assistance.
II.2. Vocational education from the perspective of gender: the National Plan for Worker Qualification (PLANFOR) experience
II.3. The cooperative creation of a public policy: the Voluntary Civil Service experience
II.4. Policies and strategies on youth training and youth insertion in the job market

III. Public policies on work and vocational education: dilemmas and challenges

III.1.Education, work and development: the rescue of qualification
III.2.Education and work: new actors, old problems
III.3.Training programmes for disadvantaged youth in Latin America: monitoring and evaluation experiences

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