Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 370 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139540889
Series Statement:
Learning in doing : social, cognitive and computational perspectives
Content:
Drawing on the field of cultural historical psychology and the sociologies of skill and labour process, Contested Learning in Welfare Work offers a detailed account of the learning lives of state welfare workers in Canada as they cope, accommodate, resist and flounder in times of heightened austerity. Documented through in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis, Peter Sawchuk shows how the labour process changes workers, and how workers change the labour process, under the pressures of intensified economic conditions, new technologies, changing relations of space and time, and a high-tech version of Taylorism. Sawchuk traces these experiences over a seven-year period that includes major work reorganisation and the recent economic downturn. His analysis examines the dynamics between notions of de-skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling, as workers negotiate occupational learning and changing identities
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107034679
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107034679
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139540889
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