The global auction : the broken promises of education, jobs and incomes / Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, and David Ashton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Phillip, 1957-

Contributor:

Lauder, Hugh, 1948-

Ashton, David, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social mobility--United States.

Social mobility.

United States.

Educational attainment--United States.

Educational attainment.

Labor market--United States.

Labor market.

American Dream.

Physical Description:

viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

The Global Auction forces us to re consider how the global economy really works and how to thrive in it. The authors draw on cutting-edge research based on a major international study to show that the competition for good, middle-class jobs is now a world wide competition-an auction for cut-priced brainpower-fueled by an explosion of higher education across the world. A challenge to the conventional wisdom that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars, The Global Auction urges a new conversation about the kind of society we want to live in and about the kind of global economy that can benefit workers-without condemning millions in emerging economies to a life of poverty. It offers a timely exposé of the realities of the global struggle for middle class jobs, a competition that threatens the livelihoods of millions of American and European workers and their familities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The false promise

Knowledge wars

The quality-cost revolution

Digital taylorism

The war for talent

Managing in the global auction

High skills, low wages

The trap

A new opportunity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199731688

0199731683

OCLC:

500794480