The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment Or Economic Democracy?

by D W Livingstone

Overview

According to Ivar Berg's performance criteria, over half of the U.S. workforce is now underemployed. Using analysis based on U.S. and Canadian surveys of work and learning experiences and other documental data, author David Livingstone exposes the myth of the "learning enterprise" and argues that the major problem in education-work relations is not

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367318444
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2019
Pages:	359
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Introduction — The Knowledge Society: Pyramids and Icebergs of Learning — The Many Faces of Underemployment — Voices from the Gap: Underemployment and Lifelong Learning — Debunking the "Knowledge Economy": The Limits of Human Capital Theory — Explaining the Gap: Conflicts Over Knowledge and Work — Bridging the Gap: Prospects for Work Reorganization in Advanced Capitalism