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Researching Workplace Learning and Class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Bob Boughton
Bob Boughton*
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The University of New England
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Abstract

Much more is learned in the workplace than efficient skills. We have rather few concepts with which to theorise the ‘counter-cultural’ nature of much workplace learning. In leading off four articles that address this gap, this introduction dips into Australian labour history to open a discussion aimed at making visible some of the other learning that occurs at work. It asks why most workplace learning researchers have not acknowledged or extended such learning, and suggests that changing working conditions within universities may change this.

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The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 157 - 164
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2007

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