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Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills (S U N Y Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning) (Suny ... Culture and Learning - Theory and Practice) - Softcover

 
9780791432204: Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills (S U N Y Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning) (Suny ... Culture and Learning - Theory and Practice)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791432203 ISBN 13: 9780791432204
Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

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."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Glynda Hull is Associate Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley, and is Director of Berkeley's College Writing Programs.

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Verlag
State University of New York Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0791432203
ISBN 13 
9780791432204
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
Herausgeber
Hull Glynda A.
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