This is Volume XIII of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1957, this is a study looks at the changes in the recruitment into skilled work after the beginning of the nineteenth century when the usual method of entry to trade and industry in general was through apprenticeship.

Gertrude Williams

Chapter 1 I THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; Chapter 2 II A NEW DEAL; Chapter 3 III THE METHOD OF THE ENQUIRY; Chapter 4 IV THE SCHEMES IN OPERATION; Chapter 5 V FORMAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION; Chapter 6 VI THE FUTURE; APPENDIX QUESTIONNAIRE SENT TO ENGINEERING FIRMS; INDEX;