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Contested learning in welfare work : a study of mind, political economy and the labour process /
A detailed account of the lives of state welfare workers as they accommodate, resist and flounder in times of austerity.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Learning in doing.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contested Learning in Welfare Work; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; Series Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Purposes of the Book; Outline of the Book; Data Sources and Interpretation; 2 The Skills Impasse and an Activity Approach; Introduction; Part 1: Interrogating Research on Skill, Knowledge, and Work
- Arguing ... ; Braverman's Departure and the Three Basic ... ; Up-Skilling/De-Skilling at the Skills Impasse; Part 2: Understanding the Occupational Learning/Labour Process as Activity.
- The Departure Marked by CHAT and Its Family Resemblances ... From Mediation to Activity; Key Concepts of the CHAT Tradition; Contradiction and Dialectical Thought in the Learning/Labour Process: ... ; Conclusions and Definitions; 3 Taylorism
- An Enduring Influence; Introduction; Origin and Meaning: Materiality, Tasks, and Learning; Persistence and Contemporary Expressions; Conclusions; 4 Historical Mediations in the Making of Taylorism in Contemporary ... ; Introduction; "Dig Where You Stand": Origins of the Objects of Canadian State Welfare Work1.
- Phases of the Labour Process and Occupational Change in State Welfare WorkThe Politics and Character of Welfare Work Change in a Canadian Context; Conclusions; 5 Experiencing the De-Skilling Premises of Welfare Work; Introduction; Experiencing Changes in Division of Labour; Experiencing Changes in Autonomy and Control; Experiencing Changes in Workload; Experiencing Changes in Client Relations; Conclusion; 6 De-Skilling
- Learning Welfare Work and the Mediations of Space, Time, and Distance; Introduction; Returning to First Principles of Materiality: Space and CHAT Analysis.
- Basic Space, Time, and Distance Mediations in Welfare Work ActivityAffording Activity with Software: Computer Mediated Space ... ; Paper as a Source of Customization of Spatial Relations of Learning and Control; Conclusions; 7 Re-Skilling, Consenting, and the Engrossments of Administrative Knowledge; Introduction; On Games, Consent, and Engrossment; Fragile Transitions toward Administrative Knowledge Production in Activity; Realization of Trajectories of Administrative Production; The Curious Case of Workarounds in Administrative Expertise; Conclusions.
- 8 Up-Skilling, Resisting, and Re-Keying for Craft KnowledgeIntroduction; On the Re-Keying of Activity; Fragile Transitions toward Craft Knowledge Production in Activity; Realization of Trajectories of Craft Knowledge Production; Conclusions; 9 Divisions of Knowledge Production, Group Formation, and Occupational Enculturation; Introduction; Implications of Occupational Entry Processes, Labour Markets, and Careers; Part 1: Worker Beliefs and the Practices of Division across Veterans and Newcomers; Worker Perspectives on the Changes to Initial Qualification: Beliefs-in-Action.