Employability

Gretchen Purser is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA.Rick Delbridge is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Cardiff Business School and Co-Convenor of the Centre for Innovation Policy Research, Cardiff University, UK.Markus Helfen is Professor of Strategy and Leadership in Non-Profit-Organisations and Trade Unions at the University of Labour, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.Andreas Pekarek is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Chapter 1. The Enigma of Employability; Gretchen Purser, Rick Delbridge, Markus Helfen, and Andreas PekarekChapter 2. Building Employability in a Neoliberal World: Intern Perceptions, Expectations and Experiences of their Unpaid Internships; Tilly SouthChapter 3. ‘The Best Laid Plans’: Reflexivity, Employability and Early Employment Outcomes When Graduating in a Pandemic; Scott A. Hurrell, Pauline Anderson, Daria Luchinskaya, Dora Scholarios, and Belgin Okay-SomervilleChapter 4. Employability, Automation and the Future of Work in the U.S. and U.K.: An Occupational Analysis; Phillip Brown and Gerbrand TholenChapter 5. Employability in Digital Times: How Instrumental Reason Contributes to the Conversion of Vocational Education; Manuel NicklichChapter 6. Decolonising Career and Employability within Higher Education: Lessons from the Field of Health and Social Care; Ricky Gee, Amy Morrell, and Adam BarnardChapter 7. Evaluating Employability: Understanding the Impact of Third Sector Interventions through the Lens of Social Value; Christine Anne ReillyChapter 8. An Essay on the Work of Recommodification and the Contradictions of Class Discipline; Ian GreerChapter 9. Marx, Marketization and Transforming Work – On Ian Greer and Charles Umney’s Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy; Michael ReedSpotlight on EthnographyChapter 10. From the Ruins of a Precarious World of Work: Entrepreneurial Ambitions in Young Brazilian Workers' Experiences; Gabriel Ulbricht Ferreira