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Labor History

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Relating rationality to context: interinstitutional complexity and embedded individual agency within industrial training in the UK tableware sector

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The central contribution of this paper lies in showing a need to consider the complexity of interinstitutional systems, thereby more effectively relate rationality to context. Drawing on an institutional logics perspective, it presents a study of workplace training in a particular industrial sector …

From craft to qualified building labour in Britain: A comparative approach

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The paper sets out to pinpoint and explain the position of building labour in Britain today through a historical and comparative approach. Wage relations and the division of labour in the building industry are traced through different stages of development, from the crafts and statutory trades of fe…