Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: Dimensions of Learning and Work in the Knowledge Society""; ""Spheres of Work and Learning""; ""Class and Learning""; ""Working-Class Underemployment""; ""Information Access in the Computer Era""; ""Sector-Based Research Sites""; ""Chapter Outlines""; ""PART I: RESEARCHING LEARNING AND WORK""; ""Chapter 1: Starting with Workers and Researching the ""Hard Way"" (with D'Arcy Martin)""; ""Introduction""; ""Research Methods""; ""Democratic Knowledge Production: The Importance of Social Standpoint""; ""Concluding Remarks""
  • ""Chapter 2: Beyond Cultural Capital Theories: Hidden Dimensions of Working-Class Learning""""Introduction""; ""The Cultural Capital Bias""; ""The Rediscovery of Creative Working-Class Culture""; ""Critical Review of Major Theories of Adult Learning""; ""Origins of Cultural Historical Activity Theory""; ""Activity Theory from Vygotsky to the Present""; ""CHAT from a Working-Class Standpoint""; ""Patriarchial, Racist and Ageist Effects on Working-Class Learning""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""PART II: CASE STUDIES""
  • ""Chapter 3: Auto Workers: Lean Manufacturing and Rich Learning (with Reuben Roth)""""Introduction""; ""The General Motors Site in Oshawa""; ""The CAW and Local 222""; ""Tightening Labour Markets and Worker Rebellion""; ""Working in the Auto Plant: ""It doesn't take a genius""""; ""Formal Schooling and Job Training""; ""Informal on the Job Training: ""You're pretty much on your own""""; ""Union-Based Education Programs""; ""Informal Learning in Local 222""; ""Cultural Historical Dimensions of Auto Workers' Learning""; ""Concluding Remarks""
  • ""Chapter 4: Building a Workers' Learning Culture in the Chemical Industry""""Introduction""; ""Profile of Workforce and Interviewees""; ""A Profile of Learning Amongst Chemical Workers""; ""Union-Based Learning""; ""The Cultural Historical Dimensions of Learning Amongst Chemical Workers""; ""Chemical Workers' Learning and the Class Bias of Knowledge""; ""Struggle over Knowledge and Credentials at the Chemical Factory""; ""Challenging Existing Structures / Introducing New Ones""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Chapter 5: Learning, Restructuring and Job Segregation at a Community College""
  • ""Introduction""""Working at the College""; ""Learning at the College""; ""Restructuring, Work and Learning in a College Setting""; ""Bumping and Multi-tasking: The Reality of Work and Learning for College Workers under Restructuring""; ""Segregation Processes at the College""; ""Comparing Learning Across Groups""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Chapter 6: Divisions of Labour / Divisions of Learning in a Small Parts Manufacturer""; ""Introduction""; ""Research Overview and Participant Profile""; ""Profile of Learning in a Small Parts Plant""; ""The Divisions of Learning at Work""