Job change and workplace learning in the public sector: the significance of new technology for unskilled work

Munro, Anne; Rainbird, Helen

Abstract

Focussing here on local authorities and health services, this paper examines the significance of new technology to unskilled work in the public sector as it is developing and the implications for workplace learning. An argument is developed that new technology is central to a minority of examples of job change, although, significantly, it is more important to staff–initiated change and to workers’ ability to fully participate in life beyond the workplace.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Dec 17, 2002
• Publication Date: 2002-11
• Deposit Date: Feb 4, 2008
• Print ISSN: 0268-1072
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-005X
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 224-235
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-005X.00106
• Keywords: workplace learning, public sector, new technology, unskilled work
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2052