Preliminary Material / Peter Sawchuk and Alison Taylor -- Understanding Challenging Transitions in Learning and Work / Peter H. Sawchuk and Alison Taylor -- Age, Occupational Class and Lifelong Learning / D.W. Livingstone -- Introduction / Peter H. Sawchuk -- Leaving University Without Graduating / Wolfgang Lehmann and Eric Y. Tenkorang -- Evolving Constraints and Life ‘Choices’ / Alison Taylor and Evelyn Steinhauer -- Educating for Followership / Anthony Tambureno -- There and Not There / Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky -- Skilled Trade Training Programs for Women / Bonnie Watt-Malcolm -- Re-Thinking Learning-Work Transitions in the Context of Community Training for Racialized Youth / Karen Carter -- Transitioning to the Teacher Workforce / Katina E. Pollock -- Introduction / Alison Taylor -- Occupational Transitions Within Workplaces Undergoing Change: A Case from the Public Sector / Peter H. Sawchuk -- Ambiguities in Continuing Education and Training in the Knowledge Economy / Paul Bélanger and Stéphane Daniau -- Transitioning Into Precarious Work / Kiran Mirchandani , Roxana Ng , Nel Coloma-Moya , Srabani Maitra , Trudy Rawlings , Hongxia Shan , Khaleda Siddiqui and Bonnie Slade -- False Promises in the New Economy / Shibao Guo -- ‘Starting from Another Side, the Bottom’ / Bonnie Slade and Daniel Schugurensky -- Adult Education and the Transition to Retirement / Pierre Doray , Elaine Biron , Paul Bélanger , Simon Cloutier and Olivier Meyer -- Transitions in Working Dis/Ability / Janice Wallace and Tara Fenwick -- Afterword / Alison Taylor and Peter Sawchuk.

In the past two decades, advanced capitalist countries have seen sustained growth in labour market participation along with a growth in the number of jobs workers tend to have in their working lives. Over a slightly longer period we also see that participation in both formal educational attainment and a range of non-compulsory learning/training has grown. However, labour market discrimination based on gender, age, disability and race/ethnicity remains a serious issue in virtually all OECD countries. ‘Challenging Transitions in Learning and Work’ presents a critical and expansive exploration of learning and work transitions within this context. These transitions are challenging for those enmeshed in them and need to be actively challenged through the critical research reported. The impetus for this volume, its conceptual framing, and much of the research emerges from the team of Canadian researchers who together completed case study and survey projects within the ‘Work and Lifelong Learning’ (WALL) network. The authors include leading scholars with established international reputations as well as emerging researchers with fresh perspectives. This volume will appeal to researchers and policy-makers internationally with an interest in educational studies and industrial sociology.

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