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Since the late nineteenth century, occupational training has been considered a predictable antidote to impending national crises. Early industrial training helped to fashion a civilian work force from unskilled immigrants, who boosted productivity in a rapidly expanding industrial economy at the close of the century. Industrial and vocational training also played a vital role in converting civilian manufacturing to munitions production during two world wars and then helped returning veterans to find their way back into civilian employment. During the late 1950s occupational training supplied the skilled labor support for the highly engineered systems that put a man on the moon.
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Wilms, W.W. (1981). The Nonsystem of Education and Training. In: Doeringer, P.B., Vermeulen, B. (eds) Jobs and Trainings in the 1980s. Boston Studies in Applied Economics, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8159-1_2
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