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Education, Training and the Future of Work I Social, Political and Economic Contexts of Policy Development
288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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A central claim of this volume is that public policy in education and training can only be properly understood if it is seen in relation to prevailing economic and employment conditions. It has become increaslingly apparent that the neo-liberal economic policies pursued by Western governments during the 1980s and 1990s have led to a growing world-wide 'work crisis'. Unemployment levels,... Read more
Introduction, Geoff Esland, John Ahier; Chapter 1 The changing nature of work; Chapter 2 Education, globalization and economic development, Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder; Chapter 3 The great work dilemma, Martin Carnoy; Chapter 4 The new knowledge work, Stanley Aronowitz, William DiFazio; Chapter 5 Jobs and people, John Grieve Smith; Chapter 6 Evaluating the assumptions that underlie training policy, Ewart Keep, Ken Mayhew; Chapter 7 Expanding employment; Chapter 8 Managerializing organizational culture, Geoff Esland, Karen Esland, Mike Murphy, Karen Yarrow; Chapter 9 ::, Richard Winter; Chapter 10 Economic restructuring and unemployment, Faith Robertson Elliot; Chapter 11 Social change and labour market transitions, Andy Furlong, Fred Cartmel; Chapter 12 Big pictures and fine detail, John Ahier, Rob Moore;
Biography
John Ahier, Geoff Esland
