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Direct linkLakes, Richard – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2011
Work-ready is used to measure employability levels among the working classes. This is the neoliberal era of human capital accounting, and global business pins its profits and losses on worker knowledge and job skills. Employers do not believe that school-based curriculums are capable of properly preparing future workers; and the paper diploma is…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Commercialization, Human Capital, Labor Force Development
