Learning to Be Employable: New Agendas on Work, Responsibility and Learning in a Globalizing World

By: Garsten, Christina

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403901058
• ISBN13: 9781403901057
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.9"