The Education-Jobs Gap

Underemployment or Economic Democracy

D. W. Livingstone

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Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
02 September 2003

Sociology: work & labour; Labour economics

From the Preface: ""The education-jobs gap refers to the discrepancy between our work-related knowledge and our opportunities to use this knowledge in interesting and fairly compensated work. [This text's] basic argument is that our knowledge generally far exceeds our job opportunities. We are wasting large human learning capacities and achievements through our failure to recognize the existence of a massive 'knowledge society' in a vast array of formally organized and informal learning practices...

""Most of this book is devoted to documenting the unprecedented amount of present learning activity, assessing the extensive and multi-faceted 'underemployment' of this learning in paid workplaces, and offering an explanation for why this wastage is happening. The pressures in private market-based economies to sell more cheaply than competitors by reducing labour costs and automating production have led to unprecedented numbers of willing workers being made redundant in terms of one or more of the many faces of underemployment. Each of these faces, namely the talent use gap, structural unemployment, involuntary reduced employment, the credential gap, the performance gap, and subjective underemployment, is carefully scrutinized.""

By: D. W. Livingstone
Imprint: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781551930176
ISBN 10: 155193017X
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 02 September 2003
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.""

Reviews for The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment or Economic Democracy

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 Livingstones 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