The global expansion of higher education allows work traditionally reserved for the West to be done more cheaply and just as well in emerging nations, write Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder. The result is that the wages and working conditions of western employees no longer set the global benchmark.
Hugh Lauder
is Professor of Education and Political Economy at the University of Bath. Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder are authors of The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs and Incomes, Oxford University Press 2011 (with David Ashton)