'Transmission of collective knowledge. Apprenticeship in engineering and shipbuilding, 1850-1914' in P Summerfield & E J Evans (eds), Technical Education and the State since 1850. Historical and contemporary perspectives

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Author(s) McClelland, Keith
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1990
Pages pp19-36
Publisher Manchester University Press
Place Published Manchester

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Name Education - occupational skills & training
Name Knowledge inc transmission/networks

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the transfer of skills in engineering and shipbuilding in particular through means of apprenticeship and how the transfer was in practice achieved; the general absence of a formal system of technical education; reasons for the persistence of the apprenticeship system including indifference of employers and labour organisations to alternatives