02332nam a22003738a 4500 CR9781139540889 UkCbUP 20180107143409.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120627s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139540889 (ebook) 9781107034679 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda HV40 .S29 2013 331.7/61361 23 Sawchuk, Peter H., author. Contested Learning in Welfare Work : A Study of Mind, Political Economy, and the Labour Process / [electronic resource] Peter H. Sawchuk. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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. Human services Social service Civil service Public administration Print version: 9781107034679 Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139540889 Cambridge Books Online 236315 236315