Educated Underclass : Students and the Promise of Social Mobility, Paperback ...

The dream of social mobility is dying. Where previous generations routinely expected to surpass their parents&; level of economic success, prospects for today&;s young people are increasingly bleak.
            The Educated Underclass reveals the structural problems that are helping to create this problem. Gary Roth shows how universities&;touted as the best way up the economic ladder for young people&;actually reproduce traditional class hierarchies. And as more graduates emerge every year into economies that are no longer creating a steady stream of stable jobs, the odds of landing one decrease&;and over-educated people end up scrapping for poorly compensated positions for which they&;re overqualified. A broadside against the failures of our education system and our economy, The Educated Underclass aims to startle us out of our complacency, and wake us up to action.