Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life

by Peter Sawchuk and Peter H. Sawchuk

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521817560
• ISBN13: 9780521817561
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"