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The Education-Jobs Gap

Underemployment or Economic Democracy

by (author) D.W. Livingstone

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Initial publish date
Sep 2009
Category
Education
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442600522
    Publish Date
    Sep 2009
    List Price
    $70.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551930176
    Publish Date
    Sep 2003
    List Price
    $41.95

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Description

What are the correlations between the education that employees bring to their jobs, the education that is required to do those jobs, and the skills that employees acquire while working on the job?

In Education and Jobs, D.W. Livingstone and contributors explore these questions. Written as a sequel to the highly acclaimed The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment or Economic Democracy, the work builds on earlier research, and presents brand new case studies of professional, service, industrial, and differently-abled employees, including high school teachers, clerical workers, autoworkers, and computer programmers. Throughout, the book reveals an increasingly overqualified non-managerial Canadian labour force and demonstrates that most workers deal with gaps or mismatches in formal terms by continually learning and reshaping their jobs.

Education and Jobs presents a unique blend of qualitative and quantitative analysis, and offers a comprehensive, long-overdue approach to re-examining the relationship between educational training and workforce skills.

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