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Book SynopsisChapter 1: The knowledge economy an idea whose time has come? Or gone.- PART I: Re-making sense of the knowledge economy.- Chapter 2: The knowledge economy: promise, reality and future.- Chapter 3: A Systematic Literature Review of Research on the Knowledge Economy.- Chapter 4: Mass higher education and the knowledge economy.- PART II: The construction of (working) selves.- Chapter 5: The Articulation of Learning in the Knowledge Economy: Recontextualization in Transitions.- Chapter 6: Thinking about Higher Vocational Education (HIVE): what would constitute a critical vocational education.- Chapter 7: Complex Entanglements: Graduate Transitions in Africa's Knowledge Economy and Beyond.- Chapter 8: Knowledge work in High Value Manufacturing: Preparing Graduates in an Innovative Industry-Based Learning Factory.- PART III: Occupational structures and career expectations.- Chapter 9: Downsizing Knowledge Workers in Higher Education: Casualisation, De-professionalisation, and Stratification.- Chapter 10: Equal Pay for Disproportionate Work: Assessing Cultural Taxation in the Legal Profession.- Chapter 11: Accounts of occupational prestige in the discursive context of the knowledge economy.- Chapter 12: Graduates in India's Silicon Valley: Who Gains in the Knowledge Economy.- Chapter 13: Imagining the future of work at the bottom of the knowledge economy. Graduates in Romania's business service sector.- Conclusions.- Chapter 14: Higher Education, Knowledge and Work: Transformations and Unsolved Tensions.
