Contested learning in welfare work : a study of mind, political economy and the labour process

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sawchuk, Peter H. [ (Peter Harold)] , 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press , c2013
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The skills Impasse and an activity approach
  • 3. Taylorism - an enduring influence
  • 4. Historical mediations in the making of taylorism in contemporary state social services work
  • 5. Experiencing the de-skilling premises of welfare work
  • 6. De-skilling - learning welfare work and the mediations of space, time and distance
  • 7. Re-skilling, consenting and the engrossments of administrative knowledge
  • 8. Up-skilling, resisting and re-keying for craft knowledge
  • 9. Divisions of knowledge production, group formation and occupational enculturation
  • 10. Understanding prevalence, roots and factors of trajectories of knowledge production
  • 11. Mind in political economy and the labor process - a use-value thesis