Enterprise Zones as Tools of Urban Industrial Policy

This note examines the operation of the enterprise zone program in the United Kingdom and considers the program\u27s implications for the United States (U.S.), which also suffers from urban industrial decay and which has now begun studying proposals for an enterprise zone program of its own. The note concludes that, based on the limited data available thus far, the enterprise zone program alone is inadequate to lure industry back to depressed areas. The success of the enterprise zones depends in large measure upon parallel government programs, suggesting that the zones cannot be viewed as potential replacements of existing government aid programs. Part I of the note describes the British program and examines how it has performed in three major industrial centers. Part II discusses the leading U.S. proposal and examines its underlying assumptions. The note concludes that both the assumptions underlying the U.S. proposal for revitalization and the proposal itself are unrealistic in their current form

Training for skill: an investigation into the problems of training for skill, particularly at the craft level, and an appraisal of the significance of the findings in relation to social and economic efficiency

This thesis is divided into two x>arts. Pert One describes an investigation which was conducted across the industrial belt of Scotland into the problems of industrial training, particularly at what is called the craft apprenticeship level, and gives the resultant findings* Part Two contains an historical account of the development of the apprenticeship system which is still important in British industry, reviews vocationing training practices in other countries, and considers the implications of the accumulated evidence in relation to the concept of training for skill