1st Edition
Learning and Work An Exploration in Industrial Ethnography
By Charles N. Darrah
Copyright 1996
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume examines how employees in two manufacturing concerns perceive and perform their jobs, and how the workplace influences employees thinking. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book describes and explores the experiences of daily work. Workers are observed as they interpret instructions, and deal with often contradictory expectations and ambiguous information. The study shows that this... Read more
Chapter 1 The Rhetoric of Skill Requirements; Chapter 2 The Poverty of Skills; Chapter 3 Skills, Context, and Practice; Chapter 4 Seeing Work, Working at Seeing; Chapter 5 Nuts and Bolts; Chapter 6 Competition, Paperwork, and Projects; Chapter 7 Learning in Communities of Practice; Chapter 8 Reproduction and Change; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
Biography
Charles N. Darrah
"...a welcome addition to the school-to-work / career collection." -- Education Libraries
"This is an excellent description of how and what people learn at work. The author argues convincingly that a common misunderstanding about the concept of work diminishes the significance of the workplace as an educational institution." -- Qualitative Studies in Education
