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Labarca, G. (coord.)
Training for work: public or private?

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2001
314 p.

 

(Full text available only in Spanish in pdf format)

 

Vocational training is defined as a public asset of private appropriation and as so blurs the primitive dichotomy in this book of Cinterfor/ILO.

Latin America hides under the unity of its denomination a whole continent. This continent is a large space of diversity in social relations, cultures, histories, politics, geographies and economies.

The works presented in this book show a heterogeneity that is evident in the continent. Dynamic, complex and modern structures coexist with backward and even marginalized sectors making imposible to oversimplify the analysis. Basic skills, occupational qualification and competencies are not merely words: they are also political and economic processes that go beyond the vocational training context.

Demand based training, autonomy and decentralization of the national organizational efforts makes us face the challenge to coordinate efforts and also makes us question what efficiency means.

Millions of people must acquire basic skills to enter the working life; millions need retraining because their skills are obsolete and there are also young people seeking their first job. In this context: can the responsibility of vocational training be handled by the private sector without risking to increment the gap between leading and backward economic sectors? Must the state finance training when enterprises are the ones that will benefit with it? Can we expect enterprises to show social responsibility and assume the costs of activities that will not benefit them in a direct way? These are, among others, the questions that trainees and researchers present in this book.

 

 

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