Industrial workers and learning through work in the 19-20th centuries: some historical reflections
The way industrial work has functioned as a source of learning for millions of women and men is still, in good measure, a mystery. This is a brief overview of the relationship between learning processes and industrial work over the last two centuries. The role played by informal agencies and by occasional factors have been highlighted, but up until now there are few historical works shedding light on the real processes that have had a real influence on day to day training for the majority of the population. There is a lot of work still to be done before a history of learning processes directly... Show more
Authors: Sola, Pere
Published: Leeds, England, School of Continuing Education, University of Leeds, 1999
Resource type: Conference paper
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