The Education-Jobs Gap

"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"