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Monteiro Leite, E.
The recovery of qualification

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 1996
181 p.

 

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This book analyzes some recent tendencies in productive restructuring in the industrial sector, and underlines the effects of this process upon labor and qualifications. As a consequence, it points out the incidence of changes going on in the way of training and its repercussion in enterprises , workers and, eventually, on society. As a starting point, the author assumes the premise that labor and qualification are important as objectives of sociological investigation, to the extent that they reflect the current process of globalization of the economy and the reorganization of modern society. Labor and qualification become multidimen- sional phenomenon and challenge sociology to widen its classical empirical and theoretic approaches. It examines in theory and in practice new dimensions of qualification, aiming at a conceptual revision in the way we undertake the phenomenon. It also analyzes technological change, characterizing it less as an innovation of machinery, equipment or systems, and more as a way of restructuring the organizational models of labor, and of productive management.

 

 

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