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Workers in Control of the Present?

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Learning, Work and Social Responsibility

Part of the book series: Lifelong Learning Book Series ((LLLB,volume 13))

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Most macro-level accounts of employment look at the social regularities of inequality produced by labour markets and employment relationships. Accounts at the institutional level tend to emphasise collective social processes and features such as ‘organisational learning’. What is often missing is the perspective of employees and their experiences of work in changing social and economic contexts.

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Evans, K. (2009). Workers in Control of the Present?. In: Learning, Work and Social Responsibility. Lifelong Learning Book Series, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9759-1_4

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