The erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industry

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dc.contributor.advisorGraaff, Johannen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorGamble, Jeanneen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLundall, Paulen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-02T04:21:07Z
dc.date.available2016-01-02T04:21:07Z
dc.date.issued1997en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 107-120.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the decline and transmutation of the apprenticeship system in South Africa, specifically as it occurred in the metal and engineering industry. It proceeds to analyse the most basic and influential imperatives which have driven this process. On the side of capital, these imperatives were the inexorable motive for a profit driven industrial organisation and on the side of organised labour, the imperatives to protect skills, jobs and wages. The existence of the one set of imperatives presupposed the need to redefine the existence of the other set. These contradictory imperatives have shaped the trajectory of the apprenticeship system in South Africa. They were contradictory because the one was an impediment on the untrammelled extension of the other. However, as the imperative of profit maximisation gradually became the predominant consideration in the relationship, it began to exert greater pressure on the character of the apprenticeship system. Within the apprenticeship training system, the imperative of profit maximization prioritised price calculation as the dominant consideration by which decisions and trajectories were chartered. Since the state mediated the relationship between the various economic interests in society, its interventions merely curtailed a more rapid consolidation of the effects of a profit driven industrial organisational imperative, within the apprenticeship training system. The triumph of the profit maximization imperative, systematically eroded the system of apprenticeship training in the metal and engineering industry of South Africa. An institutional inertia within the South African state resulted in the manifestation of erosive effects within institutions of the state empowered with governing and managing human resources development. This institutional inertia within the state was an accompaniment to the broader erosion of the apprenticeship training system at the workplace.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationLundall, P. (1997). <i>The erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industry</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16098en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationLundall, Paul. <i>"The erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industry."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16098en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLundall, P. 1997. The erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industry. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Lundall, Paul AB - This thesis explores the decline and transmutation of the apprenticeship system in South Africa, specifically as it occurred in the metal and engineering industry. It proceeds to analyse the most basic and influential imperatives which have driven this process. On the side of capital, these imperatives were the inexorable motive for a profit driven industrial organisation and on the side of organised labour, the imperatives to protect skills, jobs and wages. The existence of the one set of imperatives presupposed the need to redefine the existence of the other set. These contradictory imperatives have shaped the trajectory of the apprenticeship system in South Africa. They were contradictory because the one was an impediment on the untrammelled extension of the other. However, as the imperative of profit maximisation gradually became the predominant consideration in the relationship, it began to exert greater pressure on the character of the apprenticeship system. Within the apprenticeship training system, the imperative of profit maximization prioritised price calculation as the dominant consideration by which decisions and trajectories were chartered. Since the state mediated the relationship between the various economic interests in society, its interventions merely curtailed a more rapid consolidation of the effects of a profit driven industrial organisational imperative, within the apprenticeship training system. The triumph of the profit maximization imperative, systematically eroded the system of apprenticeship training in the metal and engineering industry of South Africa. An institutional inertia within the South African state resulted in the manifestation of erosive effects within institutions of the state empowered with governing and managing human resources development. This institutional inertia within the state was an accompaniment to the broader erosion of the apprenticeship training system at the workplace. DA - 1997 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1997 T1 - The erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industry TI - The erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industry UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16098 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/16098
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationLundall P. The erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industry. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 1997 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16098en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherSociologyen_ZA
dc.subject.otherApprenticeship programs - South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.otherEmployees - Training of - South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleThe erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industryen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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