EDUCATION
AND JOBS
The
Great Training Robbery
IVAR BERG
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
With a New Introduction by the Author
From the Foreword . . .
“[P]rovides the
reader with rich fare. . . . Berg has opened up important new questions
and has cast serious doubts upon accepted answers to old questions . . . . In attacking the hallowed beliefs of
statesmen, employers, economists, and educators, he has let in new light where
light has long been needed. And he has
done so with scholarly acumen, stylistic grace, and a saving sense of
humor—qualities all too rare in academe.”
Eli Ginzberg, Columbia
University
From the reviews . . .
“[This]
brilliantly subtitled book . . . is a major contribution to understanding the
reality of the labor market.”
Robert A. Nixon in Social
Policy
“[A] brief,
lucid, and devastating book which deserves to be widely read.”
Lawrence Stone in New
York Review of Books
A volume in the
series Foundations of Sociology
ISBN 0-9712427-5-5/paperback/266 pp./illus./January 2003/$36.00