The Education-Jobs Gap
by D. W. Livingstone
‘A superb book notable for its effective synthesis of quantitative, qualitative, historical, and theoretical approaches. Livingstone explores an issue of vital importance: the growing disjunction between education and paid work in advanced industrial economies.’ (Beverley H. Burris, University of New Mexico)
From Research and Reference Book News “In the new introduction to the award-winning 1999 edition, a Canadian scholar notes that while research on underemployment has increased since then, preoccupation with statistics still emphasizes limited dimensions of the problem of under-utilization of capabilities. Drawing on survey and case study research in advanced economies, Livingstone (U. of Toronto) analyzes various theories (e.g., human capital) as limited in explaining the education-jobs gap. He does support a general conflict theory identifying the highest underemployment with the least powerful social groups.”
D. W. Livingstone University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Winner of the 1999 CSAA John Porter Memorial Book Award.
- By (author) D. W. Livingstone
Praise from readers "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 "A superb book notable for its effective synthesis of quantitative, qualitative, historical, and theoretical approaches. Livingstone explores an issue of vital importance: the growing disjunction between education and paid work in advanced industrial economies." Beverley H. Burris, University of New Mexico "Livingstone's 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 "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 "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
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