Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore

Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore

The Developmental Worker as the Missing Link

Sung, Johnny

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

04/2006

208

Dura

Inglês

9781843763291

15 a 20 dias

By developing a complementary concept - the developmental worker - the book examines the socio-political context in which workers became central to the national growth strategy and its skill formation projects.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Competing Theories of Economic Development in the Social Sciences - The Dichotomy of Market vs the State 3. Singapore as a Developmental State: Workforce Development and the Emergence of the Developmental Worker' 4. The Theoretical Considerations of the Developmental Worker Model 5. Singapore as a Developmental State: Nation Building, Social Engineering and Workforce Development 6. The Developmental Worker - The Interpretative Understanding Process and its Impact on the Worker-State Relationship 7. The Developmental Worker - Values and Beliefs 8. Conclusions Bibliography Index
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