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The 14 chapters in this volume examine different types of apprenticeships from a variety of perspectives. "Introduction" (Patrick Ainley, Helen Rainbird) provides an overview of the content. Three chapters in Part 1 examine the history of apprenticeship: "The Apprentice in History" (Richard Aldrich); "The Changing Structure and Significance of Apprenticeship with Special Reference to Construction" (Linda Clarke); and "The Embedding of Apprenticeship in Industrial Relations: British Engineering, 1925-65" (Paul Ryan). Three chapters in part 2 open up the idea of apprenticeship to various disciplinary perspectives: "Nietzsche, Marx, and Mastery: The Learning unto Death" (Glenn Rikowski); "The Nomad's Apprentice: Different Kinds of 'Apprenticeship' Among Kyrgyz Nomads in Central Asia" (Stephanie Bunn); and "Conversation and Instruction Within Apprenticeship: Affordances for Learning" (Michael A. Forrester). The three chapters in part 3 on apprenticeship as a model of learning are as follows: "Making Meaning: Language for Learning" (Edwin Webb); "Beyond the Institution of Apprenticeship: Towards a Social Theory of Learning as the Production of Knowledge" (David Guile, Michael Young); and "Apprenticeship a la Mode? Some Reflections on Learning as Cultural Labour" (Phil Cohen). Four chapters in part 4 include contemporary policy debates on work-based learning and the analysis of Modern Apprenticeships (MAs): "A Sense of Belonging: The Relationship Between Community and Apprenticeship" (Alison Fuller, Lorna Unwin); "Modern Apprenticeships: Just in Time, or Far Too Late?" (Malcolm Maguire); "Modern Apprentices in College. So What's New?" (Prue Huddleston); and "Working to Learn: An Holistic Approach to Young People's Education and Training" (Peter Senker, Helen Rainbird, Karen Evans, Phil Hodkinson, Ewart Keep, Malcolm Maguire, David Raffe, Lorna Unwin). (YLB)

This volume analyzes the literature in the field of education and work and establishes an institutional and intellectual cartography for three countries. It examines the multiple connections between education and work, through an analysis of the literature on the transition from school to work, on vocational training, and on the labor market. It summarizes the major debates in each country and contributes to an understanding of different intellectual traditions. It shows that concepts such as skill, unemployment rates, young people, and the transition from school to work are socially constructed and are thought about in ways that are nationally specific. The 19 papers are as follows: "Comparisons between an Area of Research in Germany, Great Britain, and Italy" (Annette Jobert, Catherine Marry, Lucie Tanguy); "Education, Vocational Training, and Employment in Germany" (Catherine Marry); "Thirty years of the Sociology of Education" (Beate Krais); "Relationships Between the Educational and Employment Systems" (Margit Frackmann); "Social Change and the Modernization of School-to-Work Transitions" (Walter R. Heinz, Ulrike Nagel); "The Relationship Between Education and Employment in German Industrial Sociology" (Ingrid Drexel); "Labor Market Transitions and Dynamics of Transitions in Germany" (Klaus Schoemann); "Institutions and the Market" (Lucie Tanguy, Helen Rainbird); "The 'Transition from School to Work' and Its Heirs" (David Raffe); "Labor Market Approaches to the Study of the Relationship between Education and (Un)Employment in the United Kingdom" (David Ashton); "Is This a Way of Understanding Education-Work Relations?" (Lynne Chisholm); "The Social Construction of Skill" (Helen Rainbird); "The Approaches of Economists to the Relationship between Training and Work" (David Marsden); "Employment, Education, and Training in Italy" (Annette Jobert); "Analysis of Research in the Sociology of Education: 1960-1990" (Luciano Benadusi, Paolo Botta); "Youth Employment and Public Action in Italy" (Marinella Giovine); "Connections Between Collective Bargaining, Job Training, and Educational Research in Italy" (Saul Meghnagi); "Industrial Development and Training Policies" (Vittorio Capecchi); and "Socio-Economic Approaches to the Labor Market" (Paolo Calza Bini). An index is provided. (YLB)