Vocational Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

James Avis is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Derby and Professor Emeritus at the University of Huddersfield. His research interests include vocational education and training, the political economy of post-compulsory education, the labour process and education policy.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Vocational Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Education and Employment in a Post-Work Age.- Chapter 2. Socio-technical Imaginaries and the fourth industrial revolution.- Chapter 3. Robotisation, artificial intelligence, employment and the fourth industrial revolution.- Chapter 4. Post-work, post-capitalism and the fourth industrial revolution.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

"The book has many strengths. Above all, though a short book, it is incredibly rich, reflecting Avis's breadth of scholarship about VET and work. ... All in all, this is a book to be highly commended and welcomed. James Avis does important work for the field in problematizing some of the current policy nonsense of a critical VET for 4IR. Beyond this, however, he highlights the huge, indeed, existential questions that face VET whatever 4IR amounts to in substance." (Simon McGrath, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, Vol. 74 (2), 2022)

“The book has many strengths. Above all, though a short book, it is incredibly rich, reflecting Avis’s breadth of scholarship about VET and work. … All in all, this is a book to be highly commended and welcomed. James Avis does important work for the field in problematizing some of the current policy nonsense of a critical VET for 4IR. Beyond this, however, he highlights the huge, indeed, existential questions that face VET whatever 4IR amounts to in substance.” (Simon McGrath, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, Vol. 74 (2), 2022)