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List of Figures and Tables |
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Series Foreword |
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Acknowledgements |
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Abbreviations |
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1 | (22) |
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2 | (6) |
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8 | (8) |
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Data Sources and Interpretation |
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16 | (7) |
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2 The Skills Impasse and an Activity Approach |
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23 | (2) |
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23 | (2) |
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Part 1 Interrogating Research on Skill, Knowledge, and Work -- Arguing for a Point of Departure |
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25 | (8) |
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Part 2 Understanding the Occupational Learning/Labour Process as Activity |
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33 | (192) |
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Conclusions and Definitions |
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57 | (5) |
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3 Taylorism -- An Enduring Influence |
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62 | (19) |
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62 | (3) |
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Origin and Meaning: Materiality, Tasks, and Learning |
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65 | (9) |
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Persistence and Contemporary Expressions |
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74 | (5) |
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79 | (2) |
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4 Historical Mediations in the Making of Taylorism in Contemporary State Social Services Work |
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81 | (19) |
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81 | (1) |
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"Dig Where You Stand": Origins of the Objects of Canadian State Welfare Work |
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82 | (6) |
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Phase of the Labour Process and Occupational Change in State Welfare Work |
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88 | (4) |
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The Politics and Character of Welfare Work Change in a Canadian Context |
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92 | (6) |
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98 | (2) |
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5 Experiencing the De-Skilling Premises of Welfare Work |
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100 | (27) |
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100 | (4) |
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Experiencing Changes in Division of Labour |
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104 | (4) |
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Experiencing Changes in Autonomy and Control |
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108 | (6) |
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Experiencing Changes in Workload |
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114 | (6) |
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Experiencing Changes in Client Relations |
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120 | (4) |
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124 | (3) |
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6 De--Skilling -- Learning Welfare Work and the Mediations of Space, Time, and Distance |
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127 | (23) |
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127 | (1) |
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Returning to First Principles of Materiality: Space and CHAT Analysis |
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128 | (4) |
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Basic Space, Time, and Distance Mediations in Welfare Work Activity |
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132 | (5) |
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Affording Activity with Software: Computer Mediated Space,' Time, and Distance in Welfare Work |
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137 | (7) |
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Paper as a Source of Customization of Spatial Relations of Learning and Control |
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144 | (3) |
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147 | (3) |
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7 Re-Skilling, Consenting, and the Engrossments of Administrative Knowledge |
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150 | (36) |
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150 | (3) |
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On Games, Consent, and Engrossment |
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153 | (6) |
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Fragile Transitions toward Administrative Knowledge Production in Activity |
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159 | (9) |
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Realization of Trajectories of Administrative Production |
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168 | (9) |
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The Curious Case of Workarounds in Administrative Expertise |
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177 | (6) |
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183 | (3) |
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8 Up-Skilling, Resisting, and Re-Keying for Craft Knowledge |
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186 | (33) |
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186 | (2) |
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On the Re-Keying of Activity |
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188 | (3) |
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Fragile Transitions toward Craft Knowledge Production in Activity |
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191 | (13) |
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Realization of Trajectories of Craft Knowledge Production |
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204 | (11) |
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215 | (4) |
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9 Divisions of Knowledge Production, Group Formation, and Occupational Enculturation |
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219 | (6) |
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219 | (3) |
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Implications of Occupational Entry Processes, Labour Markets, and Careers |
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222 | (3) |
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Part 1 Worker Beliefs and the Practices of Division across Veterans and Newcomers |
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225 | (11) |
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Part 2 Newcomers and Veterans in the Survey Data |
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236 | (68) |
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248 | (3) |
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10 Understanding Prevalence, Roots, and Factors of Trajectories of Knowledge Production |
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251 | (32) |
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251 | (2) |
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Exploring Views on the Division of Labour and Approximating the Prevalence of Learning Trajectories |
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253 | (7) |
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Understanding a Key Mediation of Welfare Work Craft Learning |
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260 | (4) |
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Combined Influences and Pathways of Divergence in Occupational Knowledge Production |
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264 | (15) |
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279 | (4) |
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11 Mind in Political Economy and the Labour Process - A Use-Value Thesis |
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283 | (21) |
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283 | (2) |
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Principles of a Use-Value Thesis -- Contradictions in the Labour/Learning Process Revisited |
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285 | (4) |
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A Use-Value Thesis on State Welfare Work |
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289 | (15) |
Conclusions |
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304 | (3) |
Appendix: List of Interviewees and Demographic Information |
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307 | (10) |
Notes |
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317 | (28) |
References |
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345 | (20) |
Index |
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