Global Auction - The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

Zusatztext a very important contribution to the debate on skills and inequality. Informationen zum Autor Phillip Brown is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy at the University of Bath. David Ashton is Honorary Professor at the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences and Emeritus Professor at Leicester University. Klappentext The Global Auction offers a timely expos¿f the realities that threaten the livelihoods of millions of American and European workers and their families. It traces the major trends shaping the global labor market and calls for a radical rethinking of the ideas - the promise of opportunity through education - that have stood at the heart of the American Dream for decades. Zusammenfassung The Global Auction offers a timely exposé of the realities that threaten the livelihoods of millions of American and European workers and their families. It traces the major trends shaping the global labor market and calls for a radical rethinking of the ideas - the promise of opportunity through education - that have stood at the heart of the American Dream for decades. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. The Promise 3. The Education Explosion 4. The Quality Revolution 5. Intellectual Arbitrage 6. Digital Taylorism 7. War for Talent 8. High Skills, Low Wages 9. The Rat Race 10. A New Opportunity Notes References Index

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• Authors: David Ashton, Philip Lauder Brown, Phillip Brown, Phillip Lauder Brown, Brown Phillip, Hugh Lauder, Lauder Hugh
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2012
• EAN: 9780199926442
• ISBN: 978-0-19-992644-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, EDUCATION / General, Education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Social Mobility, Labour / income economics, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General