Education And Jobs: The Great Training Robbery
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What if the relentless expansion of educational credentialism has been one of the greatest cons ever perpetrated on the modern workforce? In Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery, sociologist Ivar Berg mounts a devastating empirical challenge to the assumption that more education automatically translates into greater productivity, higher job performance, or meaningful economic advancement for workers — arguing instead that credential inflation serves institutional and managerial interests far more than it serves the individuals compelled to obtain those credentials. Berg's work, a landmark of critical sociology and labour economics, marshals rigorous research data to dismantle the post-war orthodoxy that equated educational attainment with human capital development. Written with the cool authority of a scholar who has done the hard empirical work, the book exposes the gap between what employers demand on paper and what jobs actually require in practice — a gap that has only widened in the decades since publication. For anyone who has ever questioned why a degree is required for a role that didn't need one a generation ago, Berg's analysis remains as urgent and unsettling as ever.
Author: Ivar Berg
Format: Paperback
Genre: Education theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What if the relentless expansion of educational credentialism has been one of the greatest cons ever perpetrated on the modern workforce? In Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery, sociologist Ivar Berg mounts a devastating empirical challenge to the assumption that more education automatically translates into greater productivity, higher job performance, or meaningful economic advancement for workers — arguing instead that credential inflation serves institutional and managerial interests far more than it serves the individuals compelled to obtain those credentials. Berg's work, a landmark of critical sociology and labour economics, marshals rigorous research data to dismantle the post-war orthodoxy that equated educational attainment with human capital development. Written with the cool authority of a scholar who has done the hard empirical work, the book exposes the gap between what employers demand on paper and what jobs actually require in practice — a gap that has only widened in the decades since publication. For anyone who has ever questioned why a degree is required for a role that didn't need one a generation ago, Berg's analysis remains as urgent and unsettling as ever.