LIVINGSTONE Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work and Professor Emeritus Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Basic Challenges in Assessing Skill Use • Acceptable definition of skill • Agreement on appropriate use • Willful suspension of disbelief Theoretical Perspective on Skill Use • Inter-firm competition, conflicts between employers and employee. [...] Basic Contradiction • development of forces of knowledge production (expressed by the explosive growth of the Internet) • concentration of ownership of private enterprises (indicated by the concentration of control within global transnational corporations) Global Internet Users 1995 to 2013 and Global Concentration of Corporate Power 2011 3,000 [VALUE] 2,500 2,405 2,267 2,000 1,971 1,802 1,574 1,5. [...] Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong Learning • Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong Learning Research Network (www.wallnetwork.ca) • Research funded by SSHRC under a series of Strategic Research Grants and the Canada Research Chairs Program • Includes 1998, 2004 and 2010 representative national surveys of randomly selected respondents over 18 on many issues of working. [...] ] Participation Rates in Paid and Unpaid Work and Informal Learning, 2010 (%) 100 98 79 75 80 64 71 50 58 25 0 Paid work Volunteer work Household work Participation in this form of work % of all adults Sources: WALL 2010 Survey. [...] Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong Learning • Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong Learning Research Network (www.wallnetwork.ca) • Research funded by SSHRC under a series of Strategic Research Grants and the Canada Research Chairs Program • Includes 1998, 2004 and 2010 representative national surveys of randomly selected respondents over 18 on many issues of working.
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