ABSTRACT
This book is about politics and working life in a globalised world. It examines the way human service work – teaching, nursing and social work – is being disturbed today and how these disturbances both constrain and enable people’s agency in everyday practical politics. Large-scale changes in work and education are key features of contemporary global transformations. They are also key features of the local lived experience of these changes in particular places – workplaces that are also learning places. It is our contention that these local places are sites where a significant politics of work are playing out.
