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The Bell System, the largest private employer in the United States, employs about 1 million people in AT&T, the twenty-one operating telephone companies, Bell Laboratories, and the Western Electric Company. The technology that must be mastered by its highly skilled work force is complex and constantly changing. For this reason, the Bell System has had a strong commitment to education and training since very early in its hundred-year history.1 In addition, the Bell System is now in an increasingly competitive market, and it has recently reorganized internally. These factors further increase the need for training.
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For further discussion of training and education in the Bell System, see Frank Blount (of AT&T), “The Corporate University: Training and Education in the Bell System,” testimony presented to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, June 6–7, 1979; and Stan Luxenberg, “Education at AT&T,” Change (December-January 1978/79).
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Springer, J.W. (1981). Education and Training Programs in the Bell System. In: Doeringer, P.B. (eds) Workplace Perspectives on Education and Training. Boston Studies in Applied Economics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8144-7_7
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