• 1. Introduction


• 2. The Promise


• 3. The Education Explosion


• 4. The Quality Revolution


• 5. Intellectual Arbitrage


• 6. Digital Taylorism


• 7. War for Talent


• 8. High Skills, Low Wages


• 9. The Rat Race


• 10. A New Opportunity


• Notes


• References


• Index

Phillip Brown is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.
Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy at the University of Bath.
David Ashton is Honorary Professor at the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences and Emeritus Professor at Leicester University.

The Global Auction offers a timely expos¿f the realities that threaten the livelihoods of millions of American and European workers and their families. It traces the major trends shaping the global labor market and calls for a radical rethinking of the ideas - the promise of opportunity through education - that have stood at the heart of the American Dream for decades.