Unlocking potential with the best learning and research solutions

Look Inside Contested Learning in Welfare Work

Contested Learning in Welfare Work
A Study of Mind, Political Economy, and the Labour Process

Part of Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

Author: Peter H. Sawchuk, University of Toronto

Date Published: August 2013
availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
format: Adobe eBook Reader
isbn: 9781107353060

Find out more about Cambridge eBooks

Rate & review

Adobe eBook Reader

Add to wishlist

Other available formats:

Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available for inspection. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. To register your interest please contact asiamktg@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.

Description

Contents

Resources

Courses

About the Authors

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.
- Establishes a new theoretical dialogue across multiple disciplines including adult education, psychology, sociology, political economy and history
- Offers the opportunity to study occupational learning and work change patterns applicable across Western countries
- Demonstrates multi-methodological approaches to work research
Read more
Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- Date Published: August 2013
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781107353060
- contains: 9 b/w illus. 3 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The skills impasse and an activity approach
3. Taylorism – re-engaging with an enduring influence
4. Historical meditations in the making of Taylorism in contemporary state social services work
5. Experiencing the de-skilling premises of welfare work
6. De-skilling – learning welfare work and the meditations of space, time, and distance
7. Re-skilling, consenting, and the engrossments of administrative knowledge
8. Up-skilling, resisting, and re-keying for craft knowledge
9. Divisions of knowledge production, group formation, and occupational acculturation
10. Understanding prevalence, roots, and factors of trajectories of knowledge production
11. Mind in political economy and the labour process – a use-value thesis
Appendix.
Look Inside
Author
Peter H. Sawchuk, University of Toronto
Peter Sawchuk is a Professor of Adult Education and Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto. He studies, writes and teaches in the areas of adult learning theory, the sociology and psychology of education and work, and Marxist political economy. Professor Sawchuk specialises in social perspectives on learning and the economy, emphasising the relationships between learning, labour processes, labour markets and political economy.