Full 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.
Contents
Introduction, D.W. Livingstone Part I1. Prior Concepts and Theories of Relations Between Workers and Jobs, D.W. Livingstone and K.V. Pankhurst 2. Prior Empirical Research on Education-Jobs Matching, D.W. Livingstone 3. The Education-Jobs Gap and the Education Requirements Matching Project, D.W. Livingstone Part II: Surveying the Gaps 4. National Trends in Employment Conditions, Job Requirements, Workers' Learning and Matching, 1983-2004, D.W. Livingstone and M. Raykov 5. Employment Conditions, Job Requirements, Workers' Learning and Matching by Employee Class and Specific Occupational Groups, Ontario, 2004, D.W. Livingstone and M. Raykov Part III: Exploring the Gaps: Case Studies 6. An Integrated Theory of Work and Learning, K.V. Pankhurst 7. Continual Learning, Autonomy, and Competency of High School Teachers, M. Lordan 8. Staying Current in Programming: The Importance of Informal Learning and Task Discretion in Maintaining Job Competence, J. Weststar 9. Clerical Workers: Learning in Fragmenting Workplaces, M. Radsma 10. Autoworkers' Learning in Lean Production, D.W. Livingstone and O. Wilson 11. Struggling to Remain Employed: Learning Strategies of Workers with Disabilities and the Education-Jobs Match, S. Officer Part IV: Conclusions 12. The Relationship Between Work and Learning: Empirical Evidence of the Case Studies, K.V. Pankhurst 13. Education and Jobs: The Way Ahead, D.W. Livingstone and K.V. Pankhurst
