ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, we showed how the ways in which workers learn and work are strongly influenced by their prior lives outside the workplace. Now we wish to look at the relationship between individual workers and learners and their workplace activities and experiences in a different way. For through their participation in working practices (including learning), individual workers contribute to the ongoing reconstruction of those workplace practices and, also, in the progressive development of their own sense of identity. First, we draw upon the evidence from the projects in the Research Network to examine the ways in which a worker becomes part of and influences the workplace.
