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This article does a great job of destroying the Reichian rhetoric, although it is in a British context: Peck, Jaimie and Nikolas Theodore. 2000. "Beyond 'Employability'." Cambridge Journal of Economics, 24: 6 (November): pp. 729-49.
> So all this Reichian protect-the-worker lifelong-learning
> public-education education-and-training for a dynamic new economy
> where people switch careers several times over a lifetime--the
> support base for these kinds of policies are confined to New
> Democrats, Bleeding-Heart (or is that "Bleating Heart"?) Liberals,
> and other Rootless Cosmopolites.