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Work, Change and Workers

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. STEPHEN BILLETT

    1. Griffith University, Australia

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  • Comtemporary account of work and working, including a consideration of workers' identity and sense of self from a psychological as well as sociological view point
  • Accentuates the perspective of the individual worker in an account of work, working life and learning to work
  • Emphasises the relationship between workers and workplaces in what constitutes work and working

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-9
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  2. Section 1 -Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 2-2
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    2. Work, change and workers

      Pages 3-17

  3. Section 2 - Social and individual bases for understanding work life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-20
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    2. Cultural, situational and individual geneses of work life

      Pages 21-45

    3. A relational basis for understanding work life

      Pages 47-73

    4. The worth of work

      Pages 75-92

  4. Section 3 - Changing concepts and requirements of work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-95
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    2. Changes in available work

      Pages 97-118

    3. Changing participation in work

      Pages 119-147

    4. Changing composition of paid workforces

      Pages 149-165

    5. Changing requirements for work performance

      Pages 167-203

  5. Section 4 - Describing and elaborating work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-206
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    2. A framework for describing work

      Pages 207-235

    3. Changing work practice and work requirements: Case studies

      Pages 237-256

    4. Work, learning and identity

      Pages 257-277

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 279-298
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About this book

This book aims to provide a fresh account of the changing nature of work and how workers are changing as result of the requirements of contemporary working life. It also identifies implications for preparing individuals for work and then maintaining their skills throughout working life. It does this by examining the relations between the changing requirements for working life and how individuals engage in work through an analysis that engages a range of disciplinary perspectives. These include the psychological, sociological, philosophical and anthropological literatures as they relate to work and empirical research that represents both the perspectives of work and work practice as social institutions and as a vocation that individuals exercise with intentionality and agency. This body of work is also used to identify implications for vocational education, professional development and on-going learning throughout working life. This book is the product of a now long-term project to understand contemporary working life and its implications for learning throughout working life. Along the way it has benefited from a range of contributions. It commenced with research from the early to the late 1990s that sought to understand how people learn through their work. The Australian Research Council, state government funding, private enterprise sponsorships and the National Research and Evaluation Committee of the Australian National Training Authority supported these investigations, as did the many workplaces and workers who contributed time, insights and sometimes patience.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Griffith University, Australia

    STEPHEN BILLETT

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