High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation

Phillip Brown, Andy Green and Hugh Lauder
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Phillip Brown: Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Andy Green: Professor of Education, Lifelong Learning, London University Institute of Education
Hugh Lauder: Professor in the Department of Education, University of Bath

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Abstract: Economic globalization has led to intense debates about the competitiveness of nations. Prosperity, social justice, and welfare are now seen to depend on the creation of a 'high skilled' workforce. This international consensus around high skills has led recent American presidents to claim themselves 'education presidents' and in Britain, Tony Blair has announced that 'talent is 21st-century wealth'. This view of knowledge-driven capitalism has led all the developed economies to increase numbers of highly-trained people in preparation for technical, professional, and managerial employment. But it also harbours the view that what we regard as a 'skilled' worker is being transformed. The pace of technological innovation, corporate restructuring, and the changing nature of work require a new configuration of skills described in the language of creativity, teamwork, employability, self-management, and lifelong learning. But is this optimistic account of a future of high-skilled work for all justified? This book draws on the findings of a major international comparative study of national routes to a 'high skills' economy in Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States, and includes data from interviews with over 250 key stakeholders. It is the first book to offer a comparative examination of 'high skill' policies -- a topic of major public debate that is destined to become of even greater importance in all the developed economies in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Contributors to this volume - Phillip Brown Andy Green and Akiko Sakamoto Hugh Lauder Hugh Lauder (with Yadollah Mehralizadeh) Phillip Brown

Date: 2001
ISBN: 9780199244201
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