The worker basic skills ‘crisis’: some industrial relations implications

Abstract

Over the past decade and a half, on both sides of the Atlantic, the idea that workers’ literacy or ‘basic skills’ levels 1 are significantly (and critically) deficient in relation to the requirements of their jobs has been aggressively promoted by sections of business, adult education, the state sector and even organised labour. Indeed, in both North America and UK, the promotion of this idea may be seen to have amounted to a campaign , the objective of which has been to persuade employers, policy-makers and the public — including workers themselves — of the seriousness of the putative problem and the urgency of the need for intervention.

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