Older workers' learning in the industrial sector: a new perspective

What is it about?

This work aims at highlighting the relevance of the subjective side of learning at work. It stresses the importance of the features of firms production strategies in providing personal motives for learning. The study focuses on the industrial sector in a Western context. The conclusion is that the European Union should include in its lifelong learning policy industrial policies too, to favour those production strategies which allow the workers engagement and workplace learning.

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Why is it important?

This study is based on a cultural-historical perspective and wants to offer an alternative view to cognitivist account on workplace learning. It puts forward a shift from an individual focus to an interrelated view of workers and their workplaces, highlighting the subjective side of workplace learning, an aspect neglected in the rhetoric of the European Union on lifelong learning.

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