Workplace Learning: A Critical Introduction - Softcover

Bratton, John; Sawchuk, Peter; Helms Mills, Jean C.; Pyrch, Timothy

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9781551930473: Workplace Learning: A Critical Introduction

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ISBN 10: 1551930471 ISBN 13: 9781551930473

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division, 2003

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This innovative book is concerned with the power relations, complexities, and contradictions in the paid workplace. Workplace learning is not value-free or politically neutral, and cannot be studied independently of the political economy of work.

Workplace Learning is part of a growing body of work that offers an alternative to mainstream approaches to workplace learning, recognizing that power relations, politics and conflicts of interest all shape learning. The authors emphasize the lived experiences of working people, avoiding prescriptive accounts and uncritical Human Resource Development views.

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"Here is a map through contested and largely uncharted terrain..." - from the foreword by D'Arcy Martin

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About the Author:

John Bratton is Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Work and Community Studies at Athabasca University, Canada, and a Visiting Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He has taught a variety of sociology courses, including classical social theory, over a career of 30 years. He is the author of Japanization at Work and co-author of Workplace Learning: A Critical Introduction with Jean C. Helms Mills, Timothy Pyrch, and Peter Sawchuk; Work and Organizational Behaviour with Militza Callinan, Martin Corbett, Carolyn Forshaw, and Peter Sawchuk; and Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice, now in its fifth edition, with Jeff Gold.

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This innovative book is concerned with the power relations, complexities, and contradictions in the paid workplace.

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