Publications

de Ibarrola, M. (Director and coordinatos)
School, training and learning
Training for work at a city in transition

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2004
222p.

 

(Full text available only in Spanish pdf format)

 

This issue describes the innovating theoretical and methodological approaches that were considered to understand the different strategies of training for work developed in a city that suffers, like many others, from the impact of globalisation on its local economy. It revises the traditions that support them and the vision of future that guides them. Besides, it also includes the participating institutions and actors, the nature of the productive knowledge that is transferred and the way these are expressed among workers of different ages, sex, and job posts in the main, traditional and deep-rooted industry: the shoe-making industry. There is an analysis of how public and private schooling has increased in the city and how it relates to the local labour market; several training institutions are described. It also reveals the decisive importance attained by strong informal pedagogical relationships among workers as the main factor of labour learning which, in most cases, was initiated during childhood. In this text, the relationship between education and labour is focused on the analysis of how different kinds of training and knowledge are articulated or not among workers of the same industry.

Research was conducted by a group of seven people in accordance with the design, direction and coordination of María de Ibarrola, who has written a summary of the results of four-year team-work for this volume.

 

CONTENTS

Presentation

General Introduction
An initial theoretical look and the changes derived from the development of the project

1. The regional approach
2. The knowledge that supports production and work organisation
3. The heterogeneous structure of local production
4. A new view on youth
5. The different spaces and opportunities of training for work

5.1. The schooling system
5.2. A second training environment: training at and for work centres
5.3. The third environment: training provided at social spaces: civil society organisations

6. Different actors and their interaction

Chapter 1
Policies, actors and local strategies of training the young for work considering the future of the city

1. Impact of national changes

2. City's future
2.1. Modernisation and change of the municipal government
2.2. Impact on the shoe-making industry
2.3. View of the future

3. Demographic context: growth, schooling and work among the young people of the city
3.1. Growth of total population
3.2. Young people of the city
3.3. Young men and women
3.4. Young people from León who study
3.5. Young people from León who work

4. Intervention of political, economic and social actors in youth training
4.1. Local policies and actions on schooling and its boundaries
4.1.1. Deficit as a starting point
4.1.2. Basic education
4.1.3. Middle and higher education
4.1.4. Adaptation of specialties of high-level middle education with the city's labour market and future perspectives
4.1.5. Innovations promoted by the State government
4.1.6. Link between the schooling system and the business sector
4.1.7. Graduates from levels 4 and 5

4.2. Intervention of local actors in the training for work
4.2.1. Public, federal and State institutions
4.2.2. Private organisations with public sense
4.2.3. Civil society organisations
4.2.4. Private institutions

5. Recovery of productive knowledge in the city
5.1. Public acknowledgment and certification of these actions

6. The great Silent Agreement of workers to receive training
7. Absent actors: organised workers
8. Thorough local view on youth training for work in the city

Chapter 2
Expression of actions and policies of youth training at and for work in the shoe-making industry of the city

1. Shoe-making enterprises as a reference structure to study local youth training at work
2. Shoe-making industry. Underdevelopment in the history of the city

2.1. The existence of a very heterogeneous productive structure within one economic sector and type of activity
2.2. Unique characteristics of the shoe-making productive process
2.3. Elements to integrate the so-called "culture of the city" with the shoe-making production

3. Sample selection
4. Schooling of industry workers
5. Intentional training at the enterprise and continuation of formal training among workers
5.1. Enterprises' view on on-the-job training
5.2. Workers' view on training

6. Learning through labour relations within enterprises
6.1. The place of the "zorritas" system in labour learning

7. Nature of labour knowledge in the shoe-making industry
7.1. Tacit and encoded knowledge in the shoe-making industry

8. Conclusions

Conclusions and final considerations

Recommendations to the City

Annex. Basic statistics on growth, schooling and labour of the population of Leon

Bibliography

 

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