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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2013
    17 June 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139540889
    9781107034679
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139540889
    Dimensions:
    (253 x 177 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.65kg, 287 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Organisational Sociology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Sociology
    Series:
    Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Organisational Sociology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Sociology
    Series:
    Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
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    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.

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