Recession conditions let education groups convert schooling into a tool for industrial needs

Evidence

The educational experts and spokesmen, the educational press, sections of the profession, the media, many educational interest groups and organizations have been operating exactly on the site of this dilemma and—in conditions of recession—carried the argument with the Labour government which in turn took the lead in promoting debates and policies designed to make this equation—success in education = meeting the needs of industry—come true! — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1124

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US education has maintained a reserve army of skilled labor. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 585; Education simultaneously raises worker productivity and defuses class conflict to preserve profits — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 226; Black schools’ industrial training was also a fiscal expedient for campus upkeep — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 169