Confronting conventional wisdom, this study argues that the major problem in education-work relations is not education but work. It documents the significant impact of deindustrialization and the changes in time devoted to formal, non-formal and informal learning. According to Ivar Berg's performance criteria, over half the US workforce is now under-employed. Using analysis based on US and Canadian large-scale surveys of work and learning experiences, this representative survey of under-employed people and in-depth interviews at university placement offices and food banks, exposes the myth of the "learning enterprise" and explains the wastage of workers' useful knowledge in terms of the forces driving current economic restructuring. Focusing on the US and Canada, it assesses six facets of under-employment of knowledge - the talent-use gap, structural under-employment, involuntary temporary unemployment, formal mismatches, the performance gap and subjective under-employment. Finally it provides a critical review of leading cases of economic democracy and guages the prospects for overcoming the education-jobs gap.
- ISBN10 0813325617
- ISBN13 9780813325613
- Publish Date 1 January 1999 (first published 2 July 1998)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 13 May 1998
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Westview Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 175
- Language English