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Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace
I have been engaging in adult literacy education for more than 20 years, and most of my writing related to workplace literacy has been critical of both its practices and underlying (if any) theory. Thus it was with joy and encouragement that I read Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace. It takes its place among a small number of books on the subject that are grounded in the complex relationships between job site practices and the substantial body of literacy research. Indeed, I think it is at present the best book on the subject.
The book describes longitudinal ethnographic research conducted by the authors in four different Canadian workplaces: a food-processing plant, a textile factory, an urban tourist hotel, and a high-tech metal parts manufacturer. They spent six to eight months in the sites getting to know the people and the work. They listened to the stories of...
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