The International Political Economy of Work and Employability

International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them. This book looks at how workers are expected to survive unstable job market conditions in three locations: the UK, Singapore, and South Korea. Global shifts to a knowledge based economy have led to the semi-proletarianization of labour and the emergence of a transnational precariat class. It has allowed for the propaganda of the emancipation of labour by way of membership in the creatives club. Workers and the rising unemployed are increasingly expected to become self-managing lifelong learners due to the impact of technological development. Dr. Moore conducts a critical investigation of how employment and education policy in three different locations is informed by a dominant view of what should make a person 'employable', created by the elite, and then looks for new models for post-capitalist production such as peer to peer communities that can overcome this binding set of rules. The International Political Economy of Work will provide the basis for research into the dramatic impact of global instability on workers such as is seen in the context of the recent recession Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction: The International Political Economy of Work....Pages 1-24 Work, Employability, Subjectivity....Pages 25-47 Skills Revolutions in the ‘West’....Pages 48-70 Skills Revolutions in the ‘East’....Pages 71-128 Employability as Renewed Subjectivity: Sooda Korea, and Peer Production....Pages 129-162 Back Matter....Pages 163-192 International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers. This text looks at how workers are expected to survive unstable job market conditions in three locations: the UK, Singapore, and South Korea