The education penalty: schooling, learning and the diminishment of wages, working conditions and worker power

Mayssoun Zucaria; Stuart Tannock

doi:10.1080/01425692.2015.1093408

The education penalty: schooling, learning and the diminishment of wages, working conditions and worker power

Mayssoun Zucaria, Stuart Tannock^*

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Cardiff University

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Abstract

Currently dominant human capital and knowledge economy rhetoric holds that education can raise wages, empower workers and enhance working conditions. Education, however, can also have the opposite impact in the workplace and labour market, an impact that has received only limited attention. In this article we draw together a broad range of literature focusing on youth and entry-level employment in order to analyse the different frames of status, process and promise in which education serves not as a ‘premium’ but as a ‘penalty’, used to diminish worker power and claims to good conditions of employment in the present.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	245-264
Number of pages	20
Journal	British Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume	38
Issue number	3
Early online date	8 Oct 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2015.1093408
Publication status	Published - 3 Apr 2017

Keywords

apprenticeships
internships
student employment
traineeships
workplace learning
youth employment

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The education penalty: schooling, learning and the diminishment of wages, working conditions and worker power

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