Una lectura transversal de la Formación Profesional Ocupacional pública: entre Karl Polanyi, Max Weber y Michel Foucault

Abstract

Public vocational training is at the crossroads of the issues raised not only by Karl Polanyi, but also by Max Weber and Michel Foucault. On the one hand, the essential role played by self-regulated markets in the current globalization and its attendant «major transformation» give rise to regulation to which the public vocational training system adheres. On the other, the public vocational training system contributes to the development of the rational organization of capitalism which, in turn, implies the rationalization of that training. Last, this training system is also part of the social control which this rational organization requires to meet its goals. The works of these authors, still fully relevant, provide a diachronic perspective on the public vocational training system. But they also offer a measure of the equivocal role this system plays in the dynamics and the values of the dominant social-economic system.