Class Degrees – Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Ed…
Class DegreesSmart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education\nAuthor(s): Evan Watkins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823229826, 978-0823229826\nSynopsis\nA current truism holds that the undergraduate degree today is equivalent to the high-school diploma of yesterday. But undergraduates at a research university would probably not recognize themselves in the historical mirror of high-school vocational education. Students in a vast range of institutions are encouraged to look up the educational social scale, whereas earlier vocational education was designed to \""cool out\"" expectations of social advancement by training a working class prepared for massive industrialization.\n In Class Degrees, Evan Watkins argues that reforms in vocational education in the 1980s and 1990s can explain a great deal about the changing directions of class formation in the United States, as well as .
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