What jobs will Americans hold in the global economy of the
twenty-first century and how will they develop the skills they need
to compete for these positions? Over the past two decades the
emergence and tremendous growth of the Internet has enabled more
than a billion new individuals to participate in the global labor
force, led to the automation and integration of numerous jobs, and
provided a new platform for distance learning. Accompanying the
explosion in connectivity, we have seen a shift in the focus of
skill debates from a concern about loss of U.S. firm
competitiveness to a loss of workforce competitiveness.
Today the concerns extend to the offshoring of knowledge work in
addition to factory labor; even high-end research and development
and professional work is moving rapidly to China, India and other
high-skill, low-wage nations. Transforming the U.S. Workforce
Development System brings together some of the leading scholars and
practitioners working in the skills field to examine what research
tells us about the current state of the U.S. skills system in
comparative perspective and the major changes that are required to
help better prepare U.S. workers for the challenges of competing in
the decades ahead. Particular emphasis is placed on
labor-management efforts at enhancing skill development.
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