Labour's policy development in opposition: the changing constraints on action

Colin McCaig
1998 Journal of Vocational Education and Training  
The Labour Party's policymaking structures in the United Kingdom have changed in a way that has allowed new ideas to emerge in the party's VET discourse. The trade unions, who wished to return to the Industrial Training Boards financed by employers, have been usurped and the decollectivisation of VET policy is facilitated by thinkers who had no access to the party's policymaking machinery in the past. This is presented as an example of the type of constraints which act on all policymakers, and
more » ... he changing nature of those constraints in response to changing nature of industrial demand for skilled labour.
doi:10.1080/13636829800200059 fatcat:yj7seozz2jfvjcxs5vln2pdfxq