Description
Book SynopsisIn this famous study, the author argues that the familiar correlation between educational training and job performance is a myth and that the upgrading of the supply of labor is meaningless unless we reconsider the nature of the demand. A lengthy new introduction by the author extends his critique into the 1990s.
Trade Review
'[This] brilliantly subtitled book . . . is a major contribution to understanding the reality of the labor market.' (Robert A. Nixon, Social Policy)
[A] brief, lucid, and devastating book which deserves to be widely read.' (Lawrence Stone, New York Review of Books)
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Percheron Press Edition: The Great Training Robbery: Revisiting the Science
1. Educational Commitments: An Overview
2. Education in Economic Perspective
3. Job Requirements and Educational Achievement
4. Demographic and Managerial Requirements
5. Educational Achievements and Worker Performance
6. Educational Achievements and Job-Related Attitudes
7. The Blue-Collar Worker: A Special Case
8. Education and Public Service
9. The Great Training Robbery
Index
