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Posthuma, A. C. (coord.)
Social dialogue, vocational training and institutionality

Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO, 2002
338p

 

This book brings together a number of case studies that analyse and document experiences of social dialogue that are being incorporated in the building process of a new institutionality of the education and technical and vocational training systems of Latin America. These experiences seek to face the new conditions of a labour market that requires a more flexible vocational training system. This system should operate in a decentralised way, represent a larger sector of the labour force and respond to the economic and social development requirements of the region.

Among the main contributions of the book is the way it highlights how social dialogue can promote the involvement of different partners, both in the approach of the training demands of new and emergent sectors and occupations as well as in the search for solution to conflicts or conciliation of interests.
The cases also show how the institutional structure of the training supplies and demands is being redesigned nowadays. The concept of supply and demand involves now, not only an exclusive responsibility of the state or the negotiations between enterprises and the state, but also, and inclusive space where all social actors do participate, specifically the trade unions and civil society organisations. At the same time this system is conceived to operate in a decentralised way at the local level.
The Latin American experience shows how technical and vocational training and education can play a relevant role in the public policies and help to face issues such as social exclusion through social dialogue contributing to identify the demands, to design and carry out training programmes targeting vulnerable and discriminated segments of the labour force.

 

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction
Recent Transformations in Vocational Training and Social Dialogue in Latin America
Anne Caroline Posthuma

I. Sectoral Programmes and Bargained Training

1. The INTEGRAR Programme and Bargained Vocational Training in the Brazilian Metalworking Sector
Carmen Perrotta, Fábio Zamberlan, Michel Thiolent
2. The Sectoral Logic in the Reconfiguration Processes in Vocational Training
Daniel Hernández
3. Collective Bargaining and Vocational Training Policies in Uruguay. Capital, Labour and State in the New Model of Development
Fernando Filgueira, Fernando Errandonea, Rafael Porzecanski

II. Active Policies against Exclusion: Training for Women and Vulnerable Groups

4. Institutional Innovation in Vocational Training with a Gender Perspective: the Programme for Women of low-income contexts, Chile
Francisca Márquez B.
5. Vocational Training with a Gender Perspective: the PLANFOR Experience
Elenice M. Leite

III. Opening New Spaces for Social Dialogue at the Local and Regional Level

6. Argentina: Training, Social Dialogue and New Associative Institutional Projects
Ricardo J. Soijer
7. Innovation in the National Training System: the Bipartite Training Committees in Chile Guillermo Pérez Vega
8. Structural Changes and Training Policies in Mexico. Analysis of the Local Expression of the National Policies
María de Ibarrola

Conclusions

Bibliography

 

 

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