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    612-822-4611

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Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labour in the Information Age

Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labour in the Information Age

Livingstone, D. W.
Sawchuk, Peter

Paperback

Business GeneralLaborGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1551930455
ISBN13: 9781551930459
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Oct 1 2003
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Working people are more knowledgeable and actively engaged in learning than public discussion generally assumes. Two basic assumptions underlie much recent discussion about work and learning: a new knowledge-based economy is quickly emerging with new jobs generally requiring greater knowledge and skill; and, a lifelong learning culture must be created in order for workers to cope with these employment-related knowledge demands. Virtually every recent public policy statement about employment in every advanced industrial country begins with these assumptions. It implies that most workers suffer from a deficit of necessary skills and knowledge which must be rectified by greater education and training efforts. Hidden Knowledge challenges these assumptions. Through life history interviews and case study research with union members, the actual learning practices of working class people are documented in unprecedented detail.

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