Canada's Labour Market Training System
by Bob Barnetson (Author)

About the Author
Bob Barnetson is professor of labour relations at Athabasca University. He is the author of The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada and coeditor of Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustice and Activism.

About this book
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and government policymakers, Barnetson interrogates the training system through analysis of the political and economic forces that constitute modern Canada. This book not only provides students of Canada's division of labour with a general introduction to the main facets of labour-market training―including skills development, post-secondary and community education, and workplace training―but also encourages students to think critically about the relationship between training systems and the ideologies that support them.

Brief contents
1 Canada’s Training System in Outline 1
2 Post-Secondary Education and the Apprenticeship Training System 33
3 Government Training and Immigration Policy 63
4 Workplace Training and Learning 95
5 Community-Based Education and Training 121
6 Reproducing Patterns of Advantage and Disadvantage through Training 147
Glossary 165
Bibliography 175

Series: Open Paths to Enriched Learning (Book 6)
Length: 208 pages
Publisher: UBC Press (February 11, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1771992417
ISBN-13: 978-1771992411