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Apprenticeship - system of learning a craft or trade from one who is engaged in it and of paying for the instruction by a given number of years of work. The practice was known in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as in modern Europe and to some extent in the United States. Typically, in medieval Europe, a master craftsman agreed to instruct a young man, to give him shelter, food, and clothing, and to care for him during illness. The apprentice would bind himself to work for the master for a given time. After that time he would become a journeyman, working for a master for wages, or he set up as a master himself. The medieval guilds supervised the relation of master and apprentice and decided the number of apprentices in a given guild. The Industrial Revolution, with its introduction of machinery, put an end to most of these guilds, but apprenticeship continues in highly skilled trades, at times competing with vocational training schools (see vocational education).

The terms of apprenticeship are regulated by many labor agreements as well as by law. The U.S. system of apprenticeships, established in 1937, is modeled on a 1911 Wisconsin law that named 200 occupations that benefited from apprenticeship programs. Some, such as plumbing and carpentry, required a mandatory apprenticeship period. The passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act in 1962 further encouraged apprenticeship programs. In Great Britain apprenticeship programs sometimes include outside schooling at company expense. The apprenticeship programs in continental Europe today differ from those in Great Britain and the United States by offering training in a wide range of fields, not just the skilled crafts.

Bibliography

See A. Beveridge, Apprenticeship Now (1963); N. F. Duffy, ed., Essays on Apprenticeship (1967); P. Mapp, Women in Apprenticeship (1973).

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Social Policies for Children (Chap. 5 "Building Hope, Skills, and Careers: Creating a Youth Apprenticeship System" begins on p.136) » Read Now
by Irwin Garfinkel, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Sara S. McLanahan. 282 pgs.

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Successful social policies for children are critical to America's future. Yet the status of children in America suggests that the nation's policies may not be serving them well. Infant and child mortality rates in the United States remain high compared with those of other western industrialized...
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Successful social policies for children are critical to America's future. Yet the status of children in America suggests that the nation's policies may not be serving them well. Infant and child mortality rates in the United States remain high compared with those of other western industrialized nations; child poverty rates have worsened in the past decade; and poor health care, child abuse, and inadequate schooling and child care persist. In this book, a group of renowned scholars presents a new set of social policies designed to alleviate these problems and to help satisfy the needs of all children. The policies deal with the most important domains affecting children from birth through the passage to adulthood: child care, schooling, transition to work, health care, income security, physical security, and child abuse. Although nearly everyone agrees that children are in trouble, there is considerable debate over what kind of trouble they are in, why this is so, and whether government can or should more actively seek to solve these problems. Americans are evenly divided on the question of whether children's problems are more economic or moral in origin. The seven proposals in this volume both reflect and cut across ideological disagreements. Some for more government, others for less; but all call for different government methods for achieving socially agreed-upon goals to help America's children.
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Youthjobs: Toward a Private/Public Partnership (Includes discussion of apprenticeship in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by David Bresnick. 176 pgs.

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Apprenticeship Training in the Public Sector: Its Use and Operation for Meeting Skilled Craft Needs, in Public Personnel Management » Read Now
by Norma M. Riccucci. 13 pgs.

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...Apprenticeship training in the public sector: its use and operation...in a preliminary way the past and current use of apprenticeship training in the public sector. In...
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The School-to-Work Revolution: How Employers and Educators Are Joining Forces to Prepare Tomorrow's Skilled Workforce » Read Now
by Lynn Olson. 338 pgs.

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...school-to-work continuum. Such apprenticeships called "extemships" in Kalamazoo...young people participate in apprenticeships that combine learning in school and on the...
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'The London Merchant' and the Institution of Apprenticeship, in Criticism » Read Now
by Lucinda Cole. 28 pgs.

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Apprenticeship in the British 'Training Market,' in National Institute Economic Review » Read Now
by Paul Ryan, Lorna Unwin. 16 pgs.

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...APPRENTICESHIP IN THE BRITISH TRAINING MARKET by Paul Ryan , Lorna Unwin Paul Ryan * Lorna Unwin ** British apprenticeship, now dependent on the Modern Apprenticeship...
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The German Skills Machine: Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy (Includes discussion of apprenticeship in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Pepper D. Culpepper, David Finegold. 482 pgs.

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This volume brings together empirical and comparative research from across the social sciences to examine whether or not Germany's system of skill provision is still capable of meeting the economic and social challenges now facing all the advanced capitalist economies.
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Costs and Benefits of Dual Apprenticeship: Lessons from the Swiss System, in International Labour Review » Read Now
by Siegfried Hanhart, Sandra Bossio. 18 pgs.

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Five Years of the Modern Apprenticeship Initiative: An Assessment against Continental European Models, in National Institute Economic Review » Read Now
by Hilary Steedman. 13 pgs.

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...FIVE YEARS OF THE MODERN APPRENTICESHIP INITIATIVE: AN ASSESSMENT AGAINST...a vocational route based on apprenticeship to match that found in the...first five years of...
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International Developments in Apprenticeship, in Monthly Labor Review » Read Now
by Melvin Brodsky. 3 pgs.

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...International developments in apprenticeship by Melvin Brodsky Melvin...coordinator. International developments in apprenticeship Melvin Brodsky As the need for...symposium...
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Apprenticeships for the 21st Century, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now
by Ginger Packert. 3 pgs.

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Working to Learn - The Apprenticeship Experience, in JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance » Read Now
by Judith B. Carlson. 4 pgs.

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How Do We Tell the Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations of Work and Vocational Education ("The Search for Painless Policies: Youth Apprenticeships as Panacea" begins on p. 406) » Read Now
by Joe L. Kincheloe. 464 pgs.

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This foundational text makes use of advances in cognition & social theory to demonstrate how & why schools & teachers must reorient traditional approaches to vocational education. The book serves as a main text or as supplementary reading in teacher training courses & will be a valuable sourcebook...
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This foundational text makes use of advances in cognition & social theory to demonstrate how & why schools & teachers must reorient traditional approaches to vocational education. The book serves as a main text or as supplementary reading in teacher training courses & will be a valuable sourcebook for administrators & education scholars. Contents: Foreword, Fred Schied. THE NATURE OF WORK. A Sense of Purpose. Modernism & the Evolution of the Technocratic Mind. Power & the Development of the Modernist Economy. Good Work, Bad Work, & the Debate over Ethical Labor. THE HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. The Origins of Vocational Education. The Progressive Debate, the Victory of Vocationalism, & the Institutionalization of Schooling for Work. Failures & Reforms: The Recent History of Vocational Education. COPING WITH & DIRECTING CHANGE. Post-Fordism & Technopower: The Changing Economic & Political Arena. Democratic Post-Fordist Workplaces & Debating the Changing Purposes of Vocational Education. Confronting & Rethinking Educational Theory: Critical Vocational Pedagogy & Workers as Researchers. RACE, CLASS, & GENDER. Plausible Deniability: The Skeleton in Vocational Education's Closet. A Touch of Class. Accounting for Gender. Howlin' Wolf at the Door: Race, Racism, & Vocational Education. THE ROLE OF LABOR & UNIONS IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Democratic Unionism in the Global Economy & Corporate-Directed Vocational Education. The New Unionism & the Struggle for a Democratic Social Movement. A VISION OF GOVERNMENT, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, & THE FUTURE. Worker Civics: The Decline of the Nation-State & the Rise of Corporate Government. A Reconceptualized Government for the Twenty-First Century.
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Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr. (Chap. XV "Reconsidering Apprenticeship in Sixteenth-Century London") » Read Now
by John Monfasani, Ronald G. Musto. 309 pgs.

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