Education and Jobs : : Exploring the Gaps / / ed. by D. W. Livingstone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Livingstone, D. W.,
• MitwirkendeR: Livingstone, D.W.,; Lordan, Meredith,; Officer, Sandria,; Pankhurst, K.V.,; Radsma, Marion,; Raykov, Milosh,; Weststar, Johanna,; Wilson, Olivia,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Graphs -- Acknowledgements -- Key Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part One. Prior Research Perspectives -- Chapter One. Prior Concepts and Theories of the Relationship between Workers and Jobs -- Chapter Two. Prior Empirical Research on Education-Job Matching -- Chapter Three. Starting with The Education-Jobs Gap -- Part Two. Surveying the Gaps -- Chapter Four. Education and Jobs Survey Profile I: National Trends in Employment Conditions, Job Requirements,Workers' Learning and Matching, 1983-2004 -- Chapter Five. Education and Jobs Survey Profile II: Employment Conditions, Job Requirements, Workers' Learning and Matching, by Employee Class and Specific Occupational Group, 2004 -- Part Three. Exploring the Gaps: Case Studies -- Chapter Six. Elements of an Integrated Theory of Work and Learning -- Chapter Seven. Continual Learning, Autonomy, and Competency among High School Teachers -- Chapter Eight. Staying Current in Computer Programming: The Importance of Informal Learning and Task Discretion in Maintaining Job Competence -- Chapter Nine. Clerical Workers:Work and Learning in Fragmenting Workplaces -- Chapter Ten. Auto Workers' Learning in Lean Production -- Chapter Eleven. Struggling to Remain Employed: Learning Strategies of Workers with Disabilities and the Education-Job Match -- Part Four. Conclusions -- Chapter Twelve. The Relationship between Learning and Work: Empirical Evidence from the Case Studies -- Chapter Thirteen. Education and Jobs: The Way Ahead -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- The Authors -- Index