Graduate employability and student attitudes and orientations to the labour market

Journal of Education and Work

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 285-304

  Tomlinson, Michael ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employability; Higher education; Human capital; Identities; Individualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348824363     PISSN: 13639080     EISSN: 14699435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13639080701650164     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Amin, A. (1994) Post-Fordism: a reader (London, Routledge).
2. Arthur, M. B. & Rousseau, D. M. (Eds) (1996) The boundaryless career: a new employment principle for a new organisational era (New York, Oxford University Press).
3. Beck, U. (1992) Risk society (London, Sage).
4. Beck, U., Giddens, A. & Lash, S. (1994) Reflexive modernization: politics, tradition and aesthetics in the modern social order (Cambridge, Polity Press).
5. Bourdieu, P. & Passeron, J.-C. (1977) Reproduction in education, society and culture (London, Sage).
6. Brennan, J., Lyon, E. S., McGeevor, P. A. & Murray, K. (1993) Students, courses and jobs: the relationship between higher education and the labour market (London, Jessica Kingsley).
7. Brown, P. & Hesketh, A. J. (2004) The mismanagement of talent: employability and jobs in the knowledge-based economy (Oxford, Oxford University Press).
8. Brown, P. & Scase, R. (1994) Higher education and corporate realities: class, culture and the decline of graduate careers (London, UCL Press).
9. Casey, C. (1995) Work, self and society after industrialism (London, Routledge).
10. Crompton, R. (1999) Restructuring gender relations and employment: the decline of the male as breadwinner (Oxford, Oxford University Press).
11. DfEE (2000) A special issue of the higher education digest presenting DfEE higher education development projects (London, DfEE).
12. Drucker, P. F. (1993) Post-capitalist society (Oxford, Butterworth Heinemann).
13. du Gay, P. (1996) Consumption and identity at work (London, Sage).
14. Elias, P. & Purcell, K. (2004) The earnings of graduates in their early careers: researching graduate careers seven years on (research paper no. 4, ESRC/IER) (University of West of England and Warwick University, Warwick Institute for Employment Research).
15. Evans, K. & Heinz, W. R. (1995) Flexibility, learning and risk: work training and early careers, Education and Training, 37(5), 3-11.
16. Fevre, R., Rees, G. & Gorard, S. (1999) Some sociological alternatives to human capital theory and their implication for research on post-compulsory education and training, Journal of Education and Work, 12(2), 117-140.
17. Gee, P., Hull, G. & Lankshear, C. (1996) The new work order: behind the language of the new capitalism (Boulder, CO, Westview Press).
18. Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and self-identity (Cambridge, Polity Press).
19. Grey, C. (1994) Career as a projection of the self and labour process discipline, Sociology, 28, 479-498.
20. Hakim, C. (2000) Work-lifestyle choices in the 21st century: preference theory (Oxford, Oxford University Press).
21. Harvey, L. (2001) Defining and measuring employability, Quality in Higher Education, 7 (2), 97-109.
22. Hillage, J. & Pollard, E. (1998) Employability: developing a framework for policy analysis (DfEE research briefing no. 85) (London, DfEE).
23. Hodkinson, P., Sparkes, A. C. & Hodkinson, H. (1996) Triumphs and tears: young people, markets and the transition from school to work (London, David Fulton).
24. Holmes, L. (2001) Reconsidering graduate employability: the graduate identity approach, Quality in Higher Education, 7(2), 111-119.
25. Keep, E. & Mayhew, K. (2004) The economic and distributional implications of current policies on higher education, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 20(2), 298-314.
26. McQuaid, R. & Lyndsay, L. (2005) The concept of employability, Urban Studies, 43(2), 197-219.
27. Merton, R. K. (1968) Social theory and social structure (New York, Free Press).
28. NCIHE (1997) The Dearing report. Report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education: Higher Education in the Learning Society (London, HMSO).
29. Rees, G., Gorard, S., Fevre, R. & Furlong, J. (1997) History, place and the learning society: towards a sociology of lifetime learning, Journal of Education Policy, 12(6), 485-497.
30. Roszak, T. (1969) The dissenting academy (London, Penguin).
31. Sennett, R. (1998) The corrosion of character: the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism (New York, W. W. Norton).
32. Sosteric, M. (1996) Subjectivity in the labour process: a case study on the restaurant industry, Work, Employment and Society, 10, 297-318.