- Title
- Social construction of skill viewed through the lens of training for the cleaning industry
- Creator
- Smith, Erica
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/45009
- Identifier
- vital:3656
- Abstract
- Most people would agree that an objective measurement of skill in work is not possible. Many perceptions of what is skilled work privilege 'male' over 'female' occupations, and pre-1950 industrial and craft jobs over more recently-established and service sector jobs. Theories of social construction of skill centre around claim-making by interest groups, structural conditions that allow or prevent such claims, and the institutionalisation of those claims. As skill cannot be measured objectively, the social construction of skill takes on immense significance in defining what are worthy and non-worthy occupations, and the training that is available and valued within those occupations.
- Publisher
- Crown Plaza Coogee Beach, Sydney, New South Wales : AVERTA
- Relation
- Paper presented at AVERTA 12th Annual Conference: Aligning Participants, Policy and Pedagogy: Traction and Tensions in VET Research, Crown Plaza Coogee Beach, Sydney, New South Wales : 16th-17th April 2009
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Workers induction; Skill; Measurement; Gender; Trade; Service industry; Occupation; Cleaning industry; Australia
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