This project enhances our understanding of how improving working can lead to
improvements in learning. It develops the Working as Learning Framework as a
new way of specifying the links between macro-level forces that shape employment,
the nature of work organisation, and the ‘expansive’ or ‘restrictive’ character of
learning environments. The empirical findings are based on interviews, surveys and
observations carried out in twelve contrasting settings. The analysis demonstrates
how the Framework can be applied and what new insights it can offer.