Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life

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.