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

by C. Garsten (Editor), K. Jacobsson (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:	12/19/2003
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL ALLVIN Senior Researcher in Work and Organisation Psychology FREDRIK AUGUSTSSON Doctoral Student of Sociology , National Institute for Working Life, Skholm LOTTE FAURBAEK Lecturer, Roskilde University, Sweden STAFFAN FURUSTEN Research Fellow, Skholm Centre for Organisational Research, Skholm School of Economics, Skholm University TONY HUZZARD Research Fellow, National Institute for Working Life, Skholm 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, Skholm PER SEDERBLAD Senior Lecturer, School of Technology and Society, Malmö University, Sweden LENNART SVENSSON Research Leader, National Institute for Working Life, Skholm RENITA THEDVALL Researcher, Skholm Centre for Organisational Research, Skholm School of Economics, Skholm 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