The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment or Economic Democracy

List of Tables and Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Mapping the Forest of Underemployment

Introduction to the 1999 Edition: Reversing the Education-Jobs Gap

1. The Knowledge Society: Pyramids and Icebergs of Learning

• Introduction

• The General Expansion of Learning Activities

• The Continuing Growth of Schooling

• The Adult Education Boom

• Adult Job Training Programs

• Icebergs of Formal Learning

• Illiteracy Panics and Really Useful Knowledge

• Concluding Remarks

2. The Many Faces of Underemployment

• Introduction

• The Concepts of Underemployment and Subemployment

• The Talent Use Gap

• Structural Unemployment

• Involuntary Reduced Employment

• The Credential Gap

• The Performance Gap

• Subjective Underemployment

• Interrelations of the Dimensions of Underemployment

• Concluding Remarks

3. Voices from the Gap: Underemployment and Lifelong Learning

• Introduction

• Living the Education-Jobs Gap

• Inside Views of the Education-Jobs Gap

• Underemployment and Lifelong Learning

• Concluding Remarks

4. Debunking the "Knowledge Economy": The Limits of Human Capital Theory

• Introduction

• The Evolutionary Progress Paradigm: "Post-Industrial/Knowledge Economy" Theories

• The Limits of Human Capital Theory

• Concluding Remarks

5. Explaining the Gap: Social Struggles Over Knowledge and Work

• Introduction

• Conflict Theories of Knowledge and Work

• Capitalist Production Dynamics

• Neo-Marxist Theories on Education and Work: The Limits of the Correspondence Thesis

• An Emergent Theory on the Education-Jobs Gap

• Concluding Remarks

6. Bridging the Gap: Prospects for Work Reorganization in Advanced Capitalism

• Introduction

• Past and Future Work

• Bridging the Education-Jobs Gap

• Economic Alternatives: Shareholder Capitalism, Stakeholder Capitalism or Economic Democracy

• Popular Support for Economic Solutions to the Education-Jobs Gap

• Concluding Remarks

Endnotes

Glossary of Acronyms

Bibliography

Index