TY - JOUR
T1 - Building Social Dialogue over Training and Learning
T2 - European and National Developments
AU - Winterton, Jonathan
PY - 2007/11/1
Y1 - 2007/11/1
N2 - This article examines recent developments in social dialogue over vocational training and lifelong learning. The central concern is how to develop coherent European polices for increasing social partner influence in this domain, given the diversity of national systems of VET and structures of social dialogue across Europe. The study draws on a survey of 13 countries and concludes that despite these disparities, cross-national differences in social partner involvement are less than might be anticipated. Initiatives like the social partners' Framework of Actions are seen as pressures promoting convergence, but this is likely to occur paradoxically as a result of increasing diversity within member states.
AB - This article examines recent developments in social dialogue over vocational training and lifelong learning. The central concern is how to develop coherent European polices for increasing social partner influence in this domain, given the diversity of national systems of VET and structures of social dialogue across Europe. The study draws on a survey of 13 countries and concludes that despite these disparities, cross-national differences in social partner involvement are less than might be anticipated. Initiatives like the social partners' Framework of Actions are seen as pressures promoting convergence, but this is likely to occur paradoxically as a result of increasing diversity within member states.
KW - Convergence and divergence
KW - Framework of Actions
KW - Social dialogue
KW - Vocational education and training
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=35348993285&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0959680107081742
DO - 10.1177/0959680107081742
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:35348993285
VL - 13
SP - 281
EP - 300
JO - European Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - European Journal of Industrial Relations
SN - 0959-6801
IS - 3
ER -