It is necessary to pay closer attention to peoples’ specific work lives in order to
comprehend why people working in unskilled jobs, most in risk of redundancy in a
labour market characterised by increasing demands for formal qualification and reskilling,
are less likely than other groups to position themselves as educable subjects
and engage in adult education and training. It is necessary because engagement in a
specific work life forms specific historical, social and material conditions for peoples’
experience processes, and therefore also for the formation, maintenance or
transformation of orientations towards adult education and training.