Preface
Part 1: Further education and the labour market
Introduction
1. Further education, pedagogy and production
Robert Moore
2. Further education, tripartism and the labour market
Denis Gleeson
3. The quality of training and the design of work
Beryl Tipton
4. Further education for corporatism: the significance of the Business Education Council
Geraldine Lander
5. The ‘technicisation’ of morality and culture: a consideration of the work of Claude Grignon and its relevance to further education in Britain
Hilary Dickinson and Michael Erben
Part 2: Patterns of participation in further education and training
Introduction
6. Patterns of participation in vocational further education: a study of school leavers in inner London
Pamela Sammons
7. The end of the ‘alternative route’? The changing relation of part-time education to work-life mobility among young male workers
David Raffe
8. Second chances? Further education, ethnic minorities and labour markets
Shirley Dex
9. The recreation and perpetuation of the secretarial myth
Valerie Gibb
10. Selection and differentiation in further education: The Certificate of Further Education as a case in point
James Avis
11. Typing in the tech: domesticity, ideology and women’s place in further education
Gill Blunden
Part 3: Further education and unemployment
Introduction
12. Social policy and institutional autonomy in further education
David Lee
13. The training myth: a critique of the government’s response to youth unemployment and its impact on further education
Merilyn Moos
14. Industrial training for the disadvantaged
Paul Atkinson, Teresa Rees and David Shone
15. Education and unemployment: does YOP make a difference (and will the Youth Training Scheme)?
David Raffe
16. Youth unemployment programmes: a historical account of the development of ‘dole colleges’
John Horne
Biography
Denis Gleeson
