Political Science Labor & Industrial Relations
Education and Jobs
Exploring the Gaps
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2009
- Category
- Labor & Industrial Relations, Education, Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442600508
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $50.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442686410
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $32.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442604117
- Publish Date
- Sep 2013
- List Price
- $38.95
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What are the correlations between the education employees bring to their jobs, the education required to do those jobs, and the skills employees acquire while working on the job? Written as a sequel to the critically acclaimed The Education-Jobs Gap, Livingstone and contributors explore these questions by building on earlier research and presenting new labour force surveys and case studies of different economic classes and specific occupational groups. The survey evidence finds an increasingly overqualified non-managerial labour force (especially service sector and industrial workers, recent immigrants, and visible minorities). The case studies of professional employees (teachers and computer programmers), clerical workers, auto workers, and workers with disabilities explore how workers modify these apparent gaps by continuing to learn and reshape their jobs.
The book is the most thorough exploration to date of relations between workers and jobs. The Education-Job Requirement Matching (EJRM) Research Project team, including M. Lordan, S. Officer, K.V. Pankhurst, M. Radsma, M. Raykov, J. Weststar, and O. Wilson, worked closely together for several years conducting and analyzing both survey and case study data. The new paradigm they present aims to help reshape future studies of learning and work.
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This is a book that every adult educator will want on their bookshelf as a useful reference tool and a bullet-proof reminder that (1) Canada's workforce is better prepared than policy-makers would have us believe, and (2) workers themselves are the first to recognize on-the-job learning as crucial to maintaining their employment competency.
<i>Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education</i>
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