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Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills
Contributor(s): Hull, Glynda (Editor)
ISBN: 079143219X     ISBN-13: 9780791432198
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE:   $90.25  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: March 1997
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Literacy
- Business & Economics | Training
- Education | Classroom Management
Dewey: 374.012
LCCN: 96039209
Series: Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Pra
Physical Information: 1.26" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.60 lbs) 416 pages
 
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Changing Work, Changing Workers looks at U.S. factories and workplace education programs to see what is expected currently of workers. The studies reported in Hull's book draw their evidence from firsthand, sustained looks at workplaces and workplace education efforts. Many of the chapters represent long-term ethnographic or qualitative research. Others are fine-grained examinations of texts, curricula, or policy. Such perspectives result in portraits that honor the complex nature of work, people, and education.

For example, one chapter examines the shop floor of a computer manufacturer in Silicon Valley and shows how well-intentioned organizational changes, such as the imposition of self-directed work teams, often go awry, particularly in multicultural workplaces. Another chapter provides the history of a federally funded literacy project designed for garment workers in New York City, documenting the struggles and achievements that accompanied this attempt to prepare immigrants for alternatives to work in a rapidly downsizing industry. Other settings and topics include a community college where minority women are prepared for the skilled trades; an auto-accessory plant with a "pay-for-knowledge" training program; a union-based literacy program designed for hospital workers; and the popular vocational curriculum called "applied communications."