Language Investment and Employability: The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service by Flubacher, Mi-Cha

Language Investment and Employability: The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319608723)

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Language Investment and Employability: The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service by Flubacher, Mi-Cha

Language Investment and Employability: The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service

$64.99
Language Investment and Employability: The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service by Flubacher, Mi-Cha

Language Investment and Employability: The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service

$64.99
Format: Hardcover
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This book provides a unique insight into negotiations around language investment for employability in the context of public employment services. Drawing on extensive ethnographical research carried out in Regional Employment Offices in Switzerland, the authors follow the stories of various job seekers. In doing so, they challenge the currently dominant assumption that investment in language competences leads to better employability. Arguing for a political economic perspective on these issues, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the connections between language and social inequality, as well as students and scholars of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.

Author: Mi-Cha Flubacher,Alexandre Duchêne,Renata Coray
ISBN-10: 331960872X
ISBN-13: 9783319608723
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2017
Pages: 119
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d
By Mi-Cha Flubacher
By Mi-Cha Flubacher
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Mi-Cha Flubacher is Postdoctoral Assistant at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. Previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg, her research interests centre on language and work, and language and migration / integration. Alexandre Duchêne is Professor of the Sociology of Language at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research interests centre on issues of language, political economy and social inequalities. Renata Coray is Research Coordinator at the Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her research interests and expertise include multilingualism in administration and in the workplace, and language policy and minority languages in Switzerland.

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