List of Tables and Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Mapping the Forest of Underemployment
Introduction to the 1999 Edition: Reversing the Education-Jobs Gap
1. The Knowledge Society: Pyramids and Icebergs of Learning
Introduction
The General Expansion of Learning Activities
The Continuing Growth of Schooling
The Adult Education Boom
Adult Job Training Programs
Icebergs of Formal Learning
Illiteracy Panics and Really Useful Knowledge
Concluding Remarks
2. The Many Faces of Underemployment
Introduction
The Concepts of Underemployment and Subemployment
The Talent Use Gap
Structural Unemployment
Involuntary Reduced Employment
The Credential Gap
The Performance Gap
Subjective Underemployment
Interrelations of the Dimensions of Underemployment
Concluding Remarks
3. Voices from the Gap: Underemployment and Lifelong Learning
Introduction
Living the Education-Jobs Gap
Inside Views of the Education-Jobs Gap
Underemployment and Lifelong Learning
Concluding Remarks
4. Debunking the "Knowledge Economy": The Limits of Human Capital Theory
Introduction
The Evolutionary Progress Paradigm: "Post-Industrial/Knowledge Economy" Theories
The Limits of Human Capital Theory
Concluding Remarks
5. Explaining the Gap: Social Struggles Over Knowledge and Work
Introduction
Conflict Theories of Knowledge and Work
Capitalist Production Dynamics
Neo-Marxist Theories on Education and Work: The Limits of the Correspondence Thesis
An Emergent Theory on the Education-Jobs Gap
Concluding Remarks
6. Bridging the Gap: Prospects for Work Reorganization in Advanced Capitalism
Introduction
Past and Future Work
Bridging the Education-Jobs Gap
Economic Alternatives: Shareholder Capitalism, Stakeholder Capitalism or Economic Democracy
Popular Support for Economic Solutions to the Education-Jobs Gap
Concluding Remarks
Endnotes
Glossary of Acronyms
Bibliography
Index
A rigorous, beautifully crafted, and stunningly successful shredding of the human capital enterprise. This splendidly executed investigation offers us a timely picture of 'human capital theory' as the social sciences' own Titanic. -- Ivar Berg, University of Pennsylvania D.W. Livingstone has written a superb book notable for its effective synthesis of quantitative, qualitative, historical, and theoretical approaches. He explores an issue of vital importance: the growing disjunction between education and paid work in advanced industrial economies, and shows how beneath the rhetoric of a 'healthy economy' lies a much more complex reality of underemployment and wasted talent. His book deserves a wide audience among social scientists interested in education, work, or economic policy. -- Beverley H. Burris, University of New Mexico
D.W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work at the University of Toronto, Head of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at OISE/UT, and Director of the SSHRC national research network on "The Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong Learning."
'A rigorous, beautifully crafted, and stunningly successful
shredding of the human capital enterprise. This splendidly executed
investigation offers us a timely picture of human capital theory as
the social sciences own Titanic.' (Ivar Berg, University of
Pennsylvania)
'One of the most important books of the decade. This book breathes
new life into the much overlooked relationship between education
and economic reform.' (Henry A. Giroux, Pennsylvania State
University)
'Livingstone's book is an incisive critique of economic and
educational orthodoxy, and a powerful new analysis of the
connections among school, learning, and work. An important new
study by one of the best educational sociologists in the world.'
(R. W. Connell, University of Sydney)
'In contrast to the dismal future of continuing and growing
underemployment promised by the dominant social policy elite, the
author offers a refreshing alternative of economic democracy that
is economically viable, socially just, and politically worth
struggling for.' (Raj Pannu, University of Alberta)
'A superb book notable for its effective synthesis of quantitative,
qualitative, historical, and theoretical approaches. Livingstone
explores an issue of vital importance: the growing disjunction
between education and paid work in advanced industrial economies.'
(Beverley H. Burris, University of New Mexico)
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