Employability
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Employability

Ideology, Policy, and Practice

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eBook - ePub

Employability

Ideology, Policy, and Practice

About this book

Employability has become an increasingly widespread concept both in management and policy, but its meaning remains somewhat enigmatic and ambiguous. This volume offers a much-needed critical analysis of the ideology, practices, and policies of employability, reflecting significant transformations in the world of work and the individualizing experience of contemporary labour markets. This volume draws on a wide range of empirical studies to examine how discourses of employability have impacted both individuals and institutions.

Employability is often framed as an attribute of a person whereby individuals are lauded as "employable" or dismissed as "unemployable." This language and logic of employability has spawned all kinds of myopic supply-side labour market policies coinciding with and giving fuel to neoliberal emphases on individual responsibility and commodification. The chapters in this volume employ diverse theoretical perspectives on the impact of employability across different empirical settings, including higher education, vocational training, and state policymaking, in the UK, US, Australia, Germany, and Brazil.

Arguing that employability has an elusive character that renders it in dire need of sustained, critical analysis, Employability provides a much-needed framework for thinking about the enigma of employability and for critically reappraising its consequences.

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Yes, you can access Employability by Gretchen Purser,Rick Delbridge,Markus Helfen,Andreas Pekarek in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Organisational Behaviour. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. About the Editors
  7. About the Contributors
  8. Chapter 1 The Enigma of Employability
  9. Chapter 2 Building Employability in a Neoliberal World: Intern Perceptions, Expectations and Experiences of Their Unpaid Internships
  10. Chapter 3 ‘The best laid plans’: Reflexivity, Employability and Early Employment Outcomes When Graduating in a Pandemic
  11. Chapter 4 Employability, Automation and the Future of Work in the US and UK: An Occupational Analysis
  12. Chapter 5 Employability in Digital Times: How Instrumental Reason Contributes to the Conversion of Vocational Education
  13. Chapter 6 Decolonizing Career and Employability within Higher Education: Lessons from the Field of Health and Social Care
  14. Chapter 7 Evaluating Employability: Understanding the Impact of Third Sector Interventions Through the Lens of Social Value
  15. Chapter 8 An Essay on the Work of Recommodification and the Contradictions of Class Discipline
  16. Chapter 9 Marx, Marketization and Transforming Work – On Ian Greer and Charles Umney’s Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy
  17. SPOTLIGHT ON ETHNOGRAPHY
  18. Chapter 10 From the Ruins of a Precarious World of Work: Entrepreneurial Ambitions in Young Brazilian Workers’ Experiences
  19. Index