Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital

by Evan Watkins

Book Overview

In recent years, a number of books in the field of literacy research have addressed the experiences of literacy users or the multiple processes of learning literacy skills in a rapidly changing technological environment. In contrast to these studies, this book addresses the subjects of literacy. In other words, it is about how literacy workers are subjected to the relations between new forms of labor and the concept of human capital as a dominant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082326422X
• ISBN13: 9780823264223
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"