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

by C. Garsten (Editor), Brittany K Jones (Editor)

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 of powerful organizations, such as the EU, OECD and transnational corporations. The cases highlight the dynamics of labour market change across national boundaries and how employees in local contexts learn to deal with new expectations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403901057
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/18/2004
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.36(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL ALLVIN Senior Researcher in Work and Organisation Psychology
FREDRIK AUGUSTSSON Doctoral Student of Sociology , National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm
LOTTE FAURBAEK Lecturer, Roskilde University, Sweden
STAFFAN FURUSTEN Research Fellow, Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm University
TONY HUZZARD Research Fellow, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm
ANTONY LINDGREN Associate Professor of Sociology, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
MARGARETA OUDHUIS Senior Lecturer, Borås University College, Sweden
ÅKE SANDBERG Senior Researcher and Associate Professor, Swedish National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm
PER SEDERBLAD Senior Lecturer, School of Technology and Society, Malmö University, Sweden
LENNART SVENSSON Research Leader, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm
RENITA THEDVALL Researcher, Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm University
LINDA WEDLIN Doctoral Student, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

Table of Contents

Learning to be Employable; C.Garsten & K.Jacobsson The Individualization of Labour; M.Allvin A European Politics for Employability; K.Jacobsson Competition versus Regulation; L.Faurbaek Lifelong Learning; L.Svensson Constructing the Competent Individual; T.Huzzard Do it Yourself; R.Thedvall Be a Gumby; C.Garsten Team Working and Emotional Labour in Call Centres; A.Lindgren & P.Sederblad Work as an Arena for Disciplining Mind, Body and Emotions; M.Oudhuis Time for Competence?; F.Augustsson & A.Sandberg Expertise and Employability in Management Consulting; S. Furusten Competing for Employability; L.Wedlin Conclusion; C.Garsten & K.Jacobsson