Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521817561)

This book explores the hidden world of everyday learning in the lives of manufacturing workers from a social perspective. It challenges the myth that everyday learning, despite its apparent openness and freedom, can be understood as class-neutral. Based on life-history interviews, selected ethnographic observations in homes and factories, and large-scale survey materials as well as the microanalysis of human-computer interaction, the analysis follows learning across the spheres of "working-class life" and draws on the author's personal experiences as a factory worker and academic.

Author: Peter Sawchuk
ISBN-10: 0521817560
ISBN-13: 9780521817561
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2003
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d