21st-Century Apprenticeship: Best Practices for Building a World-Class Workforce

Illustrates how a changing U.S. economy demands a revival of employer-based workforce training and suggests a new model of apprenticeship founded on the best of practices past and present, overseas and at home.

• Includes excerpts from interviews and observations from the author's travels through Europe, where apprenticeship has been revitalized with great success

• Discusses the current best practices and potential of community colleges collaborating with employers to facilitate apprenticeship training and college credit/courses

• Includes sidebars that document how local or regional collaboratives for registered apprenticeship at community colleges can have a tremendous economic development benefit

• Describes real-world employer experiences with apprenticeship, offering insightful commentary on what works and doesn't work from their diverse perspectives—including employers abroad