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The last two decades have seen an international explosion of interest in theories of mind, culture, and activity. This book includes a diverse array of theoretical perspectives from international scholars in the fields of education, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, communications, industrial relations, and business studies. Broken into three main sections (education, work, and everyday life) each chapter emerges from an analysis of practice and learning as social cultural participation and historical change in relation to the concept of activity, contradiction, and struggle.

This book explores the hidden world of everyday learning in the lives of manufacturing workers from a social perspective. It challenges the myth that everyday learning, despite its apparent openness and freedom, can be understood as class-neutral. Based on life-history interviews, selected ethnographic observations in homes and factories, and large-scale survey materials as well as the microanalysis of human-computer interaction, the analysis follows learning across the spheres of "working-class life" and draws on the author's personal experiences as a factory worker and academic.

A detailed account of the lives of state welfare workers as they accommodate, resist and flounder in times of austerity.

Finding My Place: One Man's Journey from Cleveland to Boston and Beyond is a humorous, poignant, and eclectic trip from 1960's Cleveland to the gay mecca of Provincetown, Massachusetts--with stops in Jacksonville, Florida, and Washington, DC during President Obama's first inauguration. But Judah's Leblang's journey is an internal one, touching on universal themes: unrequited love, the search for one's place and identity, and wrestling with Father Time. This new edition includes numerous pieces broadcast on NPR stations around the United States, and published in newspapers and magazines in...

This is the first systematic analysis of the class structure of professionals. Their growing numbers, including mainly non-managerial professional employees as well as self-employed professionals, professional employers and professional managers, have been conflated in most prior studies. In this book, evidence comes from a unique series of large-scale surveys since the 1980s as well as recent comparative case studies of engineers and nurses. A primary focus is on issues of job control and skill utilization among these knowledge workers widely regarded as pivotal to the sustainability of...