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Learning to be Employable
. Ed(S): Garsten, Christina; Jacobsson, Kerstin
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Paperback. Editor(s): Garsten, Christina; Jacobsson, Kerstin. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KC; KJMV2; KJQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book explores the powerful global discourse of employability in labour markets and how it is expressed in local worklife practice. This is key to understanding contemporary changes in the workings of labour markets and highlights changes in ideas regarding responsibility and learning. The book shows how this discourse works, by relating empirical case studies in different sectors of wider policy aims, ideological shifts, and the discursive influences of powerful organizations, such as the EU, OECD and transnational corporations. The cases highlight the dynamics of labour market change across national boundaries and how employees in local contexts learn to deal ... Read more
This book explores the powerful global discourse of employability in labour markets and how it is expressed in local worklife practice. This is key to understanding contemporary changes in the workings of labour markets and highlights changes in ideas regarding responsibility and learning. The book shows how this discourse works, by relating empirical case studies in different sectors of wider policy aims, ideological shifts, and the discursive influences of powerful organizations, such as the EU, OECD and transnational corporations. The cases highlight the dynamics of labour market change across national boundaries and how employees in local contexts learn to deal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349721153
SKU
V9781349721153
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Garsten, Christina; Jacobsson, Kerstin
MICHAEL ALLVIN Senior Researcher in Work and Organisation Psychology FREDRIK AUGUSTSSON Doctoral Student of Sociology , National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm LOTTE FAURBAEK Lecturer, Roskilde University, Sweden STAFFAN FURUSTEN Research Fellow, Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm University TONY HUZZARD Research Fellow, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm ANTONY LINDGREN Associate Professor of Sociology, Luleå ... Read more
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