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Organisational and individual agency in workplace learning in the European metal sector
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023-03-24) Kirov, Vassil; Estévez Gutiérrez, Ana; Elexpuru Albizuri, Iciar; Díez Ruiz, Fernando ; Villardón Gallego, Lourdes; Aurrekoetxea Casaus, Maite
This chapter compares the evolution of day-to-day, informal, workplace learning and work-based training arrangements in the metals sector in Bulgaria and Spain’s Basque region. The latter’s advanced, industrialised economic model is rather different from other Spanish regions. Basque country institutions successfully link vocational education with labour market needs; Bulgaria’s state educational system is poor at delivering skills. The Basque studies are both in the region’s important cooperative sector. The Bulgarian companies (both domestic subsidiaries of multinationals) developed in global value chains; they have recently introduced in-house training to cope with a shortage of qualified labour. Using qualitative methods, the chapter shows how organisational and individual agency provide space for informal workplace learning and what outcomes this has for early career workers.