Preliminary Material / D.W. Livingstone , Kiran Mirchandani and Peter H. Sawchuk -- Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Learning and Work in Turbulent Times / D.W. Livingstone , Kiran Mirchandani and Peter H. Sawchu -- General Perspectives on Lifelong learning and Work / D.W. Livingstone -- Mapping the Field of Lifelong (Formal and Informal) Learning and (Paid and Unpaid)Work / D.W. Livingstone -- Just Women’s Stuff: Lifelong Learning through Unpaid HouseholdWork / Margrit Eichler -- Lifelong Learning and the New Economy: Sorting through the Rhetoric / Jane Cruikshank -- Human Capital as a Mind of State and Canada as a State of Minds / Thomas J. Courchene -- Lifelong Learning and Work as ‘Value’ Production: Combining Work and Learning Analysis from a Cultural Historical Perspective / Peter H. Sawchuk -- Art in the Workplace: Innovation and Culture-Based Economic Development in Small Cities / John A. Bratton and W.F. Garrett-Petts -- Social Justice / Peter H. Sawchuk -- The World Turned Upside Down – Again / Stanley Aronowitz -- Lessons of Gender Politics from the Centre and the Fringes of the Knowledge-Based Society / Shauna Butterwick , Kaela Jubas and Jen Liptrot -- ‘Work Around’ or ‘Jerk Around’?: Social Injustice and the Creation of Information and Misinformation in the Ontario Public Service Sector / Deborah Boutilier -- Learning Social Justice? Assessing the Benefits of Work Study Placement for Marginalized Students in Post-Secondary Education / Jan Kainer -- Doing Disability at the Bank: Discovering the Work of Informal Learning/Teaching Done by Disabled Bank Employees / Kathryn Church , Catherine Frazee , Melanie Panitch , Teresa Luciani and Victoria Bowman -- Precarious Employment / Kiran Mirchandani -- Precarious Employment and ‘Lifelong Learning’: Challenging the Paradigm of ‘Employability Security’ / Leah F. Vosko -- The Paradox of Training and Learning in a Culture of Contingency / Kiran Mirchandani , Roxana Ng , Nel Colomo-Moya , Srabani Maitra , Trudy Rawlings , Khaleda Siddiqui , Hongxia Shan and Bonnie L. Slade -- Learning on the Line: Skills, Sociality and Solidarity among Garment Workers / Tara Fenwick -- Apprenticeship / Peter H. Sawchuk -- Whither(ing) Learning? Apprenticeships and Young People in Europe / Keith Forrester -- Building a Future for High School Students in Trades / Alison Taylor and Bonnie Watt-Malcolm -- Multiple literacies / D.W. Livingstone -- Implications of Multiple Literacies for Literacy / Jim Cummins -- From Literacy to Multi-Literacies: Implications for Lifelong Learning and Work / Margaret Early -- ‘Can Volunteer Work Help Me Get a Job in My Field?’ On Learning, Immigration and Labour Markets / Daniel Schugurensky and Bonnie L. Slade -- New Home, New Learning: Chinese Immigrants, Unpaid Housework and Care Work / Lichun (Willa) Liu -- Afterword: General Themes and Future Research Directions / D.W. Livingstone , Kiran Mirchandani and Peter H. Sawchuk.

Concern with learning throughout life has become pervasive in market-driven societies. Will most workers need to become more continuous learners in a new knowledge-based economy or will much of their learning be ignored or devalued in relation to their work? These papers critically assess dominant views of learning and work. The book is unique in examining changing relations between learning and work in terms of unpaid work and informal learning as well as paid employment and formal education. The book is organized in terms of five basic themes. GENERAL PERSPECTIVES assesses learning and work relations in the “new economy” in terms of different concepts of learning and work and contending theories of education-employment relations. SOCIAL JUSTICE looks at uneven dislocating effects of globalization on gender discrimination in information technology work, working conditions in the public sector, student transitions to work, and disability in work and learning. PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT analyzes the general working conditions and learning constraints of temporary, part-time workers, with a particular focus on call centre and garment workers. APPRENTICESHIPS offers an international review of the nature and future trajectory of apprenticeship systems and a case study of the challenges of a high school trades preparation program. MULTIPLE LITERACIES identifies needed abilities including coping with diverse cultures, languages and environmental change, as well as use of information technologies. The material in this volume emerges from the conference on “The Future of Lifelong Learning and Work” held at the University of Toronto in June, 2005. This conference was one of the cluminating efforts of the Work and Lifelong Learning international research network based in Canada. The contributions were produced by members of this network as well as associates of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at OISE/UT, and are complemented by the work of selected, leading international voices in the field of learning and work.

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