Graduate Work - Skills, Credentials, Careers, and Labour Markets

This book examines the nature of work that graduates perform as well as the labour market for graduates. It examines existing assumptions we have on the nature of graduate labour, arguing the work of graduates is not necessarily defined by their education.

Sommario

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Contested Nature of Graduate Labour


• 3: The Changing Graduate Labour Market


• 4: Recruitment and Selection of Graduate Workers


• 5: The Role of Education


• 6: Skills and Knowledge


• 7: Graduate Occupations


• 8: Graduates Careers


• 9: The Ideal of the Graduate Worker

Info autore

Gerbrand Tholen is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at City, University of London. His research interests are centred around education, skills, jobs, occupations, and the labour market. He has previously examined issues of skill utilisation, graduate work, elite education, labour market mobility, income inequality, skill formationm, and the global labour market as well as social theory. Previously he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. His previous book The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market: Media, Policy and Political Discourses in the UK (2014, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan) evaluates existing assumptions on the graduate labour market.

Riassunto

This book examines the nature of work that graduates perform as well as the labour market for graduates. It examines existing assumptions we have on the nature of graduate labour, arguing the work of graduates is not necessarily defined by their education.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tholen, Gerbrand Tholen, Gerbrand (Senior Lecturer in Sociology Tholen, Tholen Gerbrand
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780198744481
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874448-1
• Pagine: 250
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Corsi per adulti; Sociology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Sociology: work & labour, Management decision making, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Personnel and human resources management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment