Apprenticeship in America: An Assessment

Paper prepared for presentation at the 27th Annual Winter Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, San Francisco, December 28-29, 1974.

This paper first discusses the results of a study of apprenticeship programs jointly sponsored by unions and employers in the construction trades. Jointly sponsored programs account for approximately 80 percent of all registered apprentices; and approximately 60 percent of all registered apprentices are in construction. In the final section, the paper reviews sources of data on apprenticeship more generally.