1. Industrial training in Britain and Japan : an overview / Howard Gospel and Reiko Okayama -- 2. The development of engineering education and training in Britain and Japan / Kevin McCormick -- 3. The fashioning of higher technical education in Britain : the case of Manchester, 1851-1914 / Anna Guagnini -- 4. 'A certain short-sightedness' : metalworking, innovation, and apprenticeship, 1897-1939 / Alan McKinlay -- 5. Japanese technical manpower in industry, 1880-1930 : a quantitative survey / Hoshimi Uchida -- 6. The education of engineers in modern Japan : an historical perspective / Hidemasa Morikawa -- 7. In-firm training at Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard, 1884-1934 / Yukiko Fukasaku -- 8. Technology and labour in a dual economy : from natural rubber to synthetic resin / Eisuke Daito -- 9. The persistence of apprenticeship in Britain and its decline in the United States / Bernard Elbaum -- Organisational capabilities in American industry : the rise and decline of managerial capitalism.
Taking an international and comparative perspective, this book focuses on the relationship between industrial training and technological change in three major global economies - the UK, USA and Japan. The contributors, an international group of leading.
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