Work, Subjectivity and Learning [electronic resource] : Understanding Learning through Working Life / edited by Stephen Billett, Tara Fenwick, Margaret Somerville.

Work, Subjectivity and Learning -- Escaping/Becoming Subjects: Learning to Work the Boundaries in Boundaryless Work -- Subjected Bodies, or Embodied Subjects: Subjectivity and Learning Safety at Work -- Learning and Experience -- Dressing Corporate Subjectivities: Learning What to Wear to the Bank -- The Moving Subject: Shifting Work(ers) Across and Beyond Organisational Boundaries -- Exploring Construction of Gendered Identities at Work -- Epistemological Beliefs and Their Impact on Work, Subjectivity and Learning -- Personal Agency and Epistemology at Work -- Developing Subjective Identities Through Collective Participation -- Action at a Distance: Governmentality, Subjectivity and Workplace Learning -- Integrating Life, Work and Identity: Farm Women Transforming 'Self' through Personal Struggle and Conflict -- Work, Subjectivity, and Learning in the Diaspora: Immigrant Women of Colour in White Academe -- Workers, Subjectivity and Decent Work -- Work, Subjectivity and Learning: Prospects and Issues.

In recent year, efforts to understand learning for and throughout working life have moved away from a focus on workplace training to concerns about learning as a component and outcome of engaging in work and work-related activities and interactions. This shift acknowledges a broader set of workplace factors that shape workers' learning and development. Yet equally, it acknowledges that this learning through engagement is also necessarily shaped by the diverse ways that individuals elect to engage or participate in workplace activities. Central here is the issue of individuals' subjectivity and how this is shaped by but shapes engagement in work and, therefore, what learning flows from their participation. It is in considering the relations among subjectivity, learning and work that it is possible to advance both the conceptual and procedural bases for understanding learning through and for working life. Moreover, the focus on relations among subjectivity, work and learning represents a point of convergence for diverse disciplinary traditions and practices that are provided by the book's contributors. In this way, the contributions represent something of the emerging perspectives that are elaborating the complex relations among subjectivity, work and learning, and circumstances in which they are played out.