Education, Training and the Future of Work I: Social, Political and Economic Contexts of Policy Development

by Ahier,John; Ahier,John

• ISBN13: 9780415202084
• ISBN10: 0415202086
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136289507
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-16
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

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. This volume challenges the adequacy of such an approach, and asks whether reliance on education and training reforms without additional political intervention in economic processes is capable of reversing current trends.

Author Biography

John Ahier is Lecturer in Education at the Open University. Geoff Esland is Director of the Centre for Sociology and Social Research at the Open University and Course Team Chair of E837.

Table of Contents

Figures and tables	vii
Preface	viii
Acknowledgements	xiii
Source acknowledgements	xiv
Introduction	1	(13)
Geoff Esland
John Ahier
The Changing nature of Work
Council of Churches For Britain And Ireland	14	(17)
Education, globalization and economic development	31	(31)
Phillip Brown
Hugh Lauder
The great work dilemma: education, employment and wages in the new global economy	62	(35)
Martin Carnoy
The new knowledge work
Stanley Aronowitz And William Difazio	76	(21)
Jobs and people	97	(16)
John Grieve Smith
Evaluating the assumptions that underlie training policy	113	(47)
Ewart Keep
Ken Mayhew
Expanding employment
Council Of Churches For Britain And Ireland	141	(19)
Managerializing organizational culture: refashioning the human resource in educational institutions	160	(26)
Geoff Esland
Karen Esland
Mike Murphy
Karen Yarrow
The University of Life plc: the `industrialization' of higher education?	186	(13)
Richard Winter
Economic restructuring and unemployment: a crisis for masculinity?	199	(20)
Faith Robertson Elliot
Social change and labour market transitions	219	(17)
Andy Furlong
Fred Cartmel
Big pictures and fine detail: school work experience policy and the local labour market in the 1990s	236	(22)
John Ahier
Rob Moore
Index	258