The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262132133 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-31 |
| Language | : | French |
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The Social Foundations of Industrial Power makes one of the most convincing empirical arguments to date that a machine's construction does not, by itself, determine its use. Doeringer) . (Charles F. It offers an impressive new perspective on the sources of economic performance and economic opportunity in industrialized societies. Here, at last, is meticulous, methodologically imaginative documentation for the widely held, but seldom-demonstrated belief that social choices influence the use of technology. Sabel, Associate Profes
A Customer said Difference in Approach to Skill Formation between Countries. The importance of the book lies in their accounts of differences in approach to skill formation in two countries - France and Germany. The authors spare the space for reader to answer, which countries has the best systems ?Germany has a very intergrated appraoch with employer, unions, local and federal governments involved in addressing present and future skill formation. France does not have. He gav
And after empirical observation, they conclude that one can find no homogenization of French and German work relations and that, in fact, national specificities exist and are maintained through relations in education, training, and promotion.Marc Maurice and J.-J. Francois Sellier is Professor of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Paris-Nanterre University.. Silvestre are heads of research at the National Center for Scientific Research, Laboratory of Economics and Sociology of Work, Aix en Provence. The Social Foundations of Industrial Power challenges the theory of industrial convergence, which maintains that as societies become more modern, they develop increasingly similar industrial structures and industrial relations and "converge" to resemble a single model of the advanced industrial society.The book op