The Manpower Connection: Education and Work - Hardcover

Ginzberg, Eli

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674548108 ISBN 13: 9780674548107

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1976

Synopsis

This volume constitutes an achievement nowhere duplicated in the three related and critical areas of education, work, and manpower policy. It is the mature production of over a dozen years of research―endeavors by the dean of manpower studies.

In Part One Eli Ginzberg warns against simplistic reliance on prevailing models―economic, psychological, or political. There is only tenuous evidence that enormous expenditure leads to increased social benefit. Rather, we need a more appropriate framework for analyzing human resources, and we ought to be skeptical of a theory that predicates an underlying rationalism for much, if not all, human behavior. Specifically, the author doubts that education can be a substitute for the family, cure poverty or racism, assure an individual a job, give a person a decent income, or control crime and delinquency. What it can do is help students acquire basic skills and thereby help them to live and manage their lives better. The author suggests that we ought to set realistic goals for our schools and insist on accountability.

Part Two turns to work and its discontents. Ginzberg examines the changing role of women, the position of blue-collar workers, labor reforms suggested in America and abroad, and the place of the work ethic. Part Three focuses mostly on public employment policy, which can improve the manpower system but can only be a minor instrument for promoting economic growth, redistributing income, shifting consumer demand to public services, or eliminating substandard jobs. The discussion will be eagerly read as President Ford and his staff mull over ways of generating jobs for the unemployed.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This volume constitutes an achievement nowhere duplicated in the three related and critical areas of education, work, and manpower policy.

About the Author

"Eli Ginzberg" (1909-2002) was A. Barton Hepburn Professor Emeritus of Economics and director of the program on Conservation of Human resources at Columbia University. He is the author of more than eighty books (many published by Transaction)--all with a human resource policy impact.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0674548108
• ISBN 13: 9780674548107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288