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 education but the mismatch between work and worker.
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...
A] useful and well-done collection, serving to outline the nature of an evolving critical pedagogy, while also clearly demonstrating its roots in actual practice and experience. "Contemporary Sociology"
An excellent example of the progress--both conceptual and political--that has been made in our understanding of how education works in an unequal society. . . . An exceptionally valuable book. "Michael Apple"
All readers who are interested in the possibilities of radical discourse in a conservative time will find relevance in the text and in the excellent, extensive bibliography....
A] useful and well-done collection, serving to outline the nature of an evolving critical pedagogy, while also clearly demonstrating its roots in ...
A] useful and well-done collection, serving to outline the nature of an evolving critical pedagogy, while also clearly demonstrating its roots in actual practice and experience. "Contemporary Sociology"
An excellent example of the progress--both conceptual and political--that has been made in our understanding of how education works in an unequal society. . . . An exceptionally valuable book. "Michael Apple"
All readers who are interested in the possibilities of radical discourse in a conservative time will find relevance in the text and in the excellent, extensive bibliography....
A] useful and well-done collection, serving to outline the nature of an evolving critical pedagogy, while also clearly demonstrating its roots in ...
What are the correlations between the education employees bring to their jobs, the education required to do those jobs, and the skills employees acquire while working on the job? Written as a sequel to the critically acclaimed The Education-Jobs Gap, Livingstone and contributors explore these questions by building on earlier research and presenting new labour force surveys and case studies of different economic classes and specific occupational groups. The survey evidence finds an increasingly overqualified non-managerial labour force (especially service sector and industrial...
What are the correlations between the education employees bring to their jobs, the education required to do those jobs, and the skills employees ac...
Using the global steel industry's status in the 1980s as a context, this study follows its evolution from booming business to a precipitous decline, comparing it to the current changes unfolding within the Canadian steel industry. The chronicle demonstrates how management demanded workers' augmented participation in increasingly temporary and insecure labor. Workers at the flagship Stelco plant in Hamilton, Ontario, are interviewed, and new management strategies as well as the unionized workforces' responses to them are documented. Illustrating the effects of the industry's decline on the...
Using the global steel industry's status in the 1980s as a context, this study follows its evolution from booming business to a precipitous decline, c...
This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class differences in educational practices and the relative effects of class and other social background factors on public attitudes toward education. Secondly, the book offers an empirically-grounded summary of the contending educational ideologies in advanced capitalism, through a discourse analysis of the public statements of spokes-persons for major class groupings. Thirdly, using the data from several public opinion surveys in Ontario, profiles of...
This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class diff...
This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class differences in educational practices and the relative effects of class and other social background factors on public attitudes toward education. Secondly, the book offers an empirically-grounded summary of the contending educational ideologies in advanced capitalism, through a discourse analysis of the public statements of spokes-persons for major class groupings. Thirdly, using the data from several public opinion surveys in Ontario, profiles of...
This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class d...
