Careers as Lifelong Learning

With the decline and/or transformation of firms that have been the ultimate providers of security to employees, such as IBM, GM, Boeing and Lloyd's of London, the career path of a series of upward moves based on a long term relationship suddenly seems passé'. For this chapter let us think of the career in terms of the development of a person's skills, capacities to learn and self-identity.

I What has happened to careers?
Downsizing, restructuring, outsourcing of American jobs to foreign countries, higher job demands and reductions in heath and pension benefits have taken its toll on the corporate career for the last decade and a half. Let's take a look at job loss totals for early 80's and 90's:
1980's 3.4 million from Fortune 500 companies
1986 – 1991 80% of 400 employers downsized to a workforce of 12.4%avg.
Reason for such losses? Economic recession, global competition and U.S. deindustrailization, along with companies force workers to......

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