The relationship between education and work
The relationship between work and education for this week’s High Culture and Hard Labor by Andrew Ross and Raising the Floor, Not Just the Ceiling by Tressie McMillan Cotton are connecting the idea that in this day an age having a High School diploma does not take you as far as it used to. Now in order for a person to get a good job you need to have a college degree. But a college degree does not guarantee a job ones a person is out of college. Acquiring a college degree is not as easy any more because colleges are rising costs. Now low income students aim for lower and more affordable colleges instead of the elite colleges because of rising prices. Most students decide to attend college because they need a job, they are more interested in the job at the end of the college education than in the education the college has to offer. Unfortunately the job at the end is not a guarantee, because many students finish college an it takes them too long to be able to find a job in the field the studied.
As this crises between education work many corporations are taking advantage of people how don’t have a college degree because this guarantees them cheaper labor. These is the case of the Kafala sponsorship programs of different regions of Abu Dhabi and Dubai many people are being exploited. They promise people from India,Pakistan,Nepal,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka good jobs. The recruitment company promised standard labor comps and a good pay. When workers arrived realized that those were only promises and many of those workers were owed a lot of money but worse of all those employers kept the workers passports and those workers could not return home.
If we ask those workers the price they had to pay for those cultural institutions being erected on Saadiyat’s Island they would say is not worth’s the risk of them not being able to see there families and not being able to live a decent life.
Unfortunately the exploitation of workers doesn’t only happen in those far regions. It also happens in the U.S. on a daily basis. If a person is uneducated it is easier for an employer to take advantage of them because it is less likely that person is aware of the labor laws and of there rights as an employee. The employer tends to look for people who did not go to college and have a lower level education because they are easy to exploit.
