List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Hearing Other Voices: A Critical Assessment of Popular Views on Literacy and Work
Glynda Hull
Part I: Perspectives from the Classroom
2. Discourses on Workplace Education: A Challenge to the New Orthodoxy
Katherine Schultz
3. Pedagogical Innovation in a workplace Literacy Program: Theory and Practice
Judy Kalman and Kay M. Losey
4. "It Changed Something Inside of Me": English Language Learning, Structural Barriers to Employment, and Workers' Goal in a Workplace Literacy Program
Debby D'Amico and Emily Schnee
5. "Friends in the Kitchen": Lessons from Survivors
Sheryl Greenwood Gowen and Carol Bartlett
6. Dick and Jane at Work: The New Vocationalism and Occupational Literacy Programs
W. Norton Grubb
7. "It's Not Your Skills, It's the Text": Gatekeepers for Women in the Skilled Trade
Marisa Castellano
8. Widening the Narrowed Paths of Applied Communication: Thinking a Curriculum Big Enough for Students
Mark Jury
Part II: Perspectives from the Factory Floor
9. Complicating the Concept of Skill Requirements: Scenes from a Workplace
Charles Darrah
10. If Job Training is the Answer, What is the Question? Research with Displaced Women Textile Workers
Juliet Merrified
11. High Performance Work Talk: A Pragmatic Analysis of the Language of Worker Participation
Oren Ziv
12. Nurses' Work, Women's Work: Some Recent Issues of Professional Literacy and Practice
Jenny Cook-Gumperz and Karolyn Hanna
13. Finding Yourself in the Text: Identity Formation in the Discourse of Workplace Documents
David Jolliffe
14. Teamwork and Literacy: Teaching and Learning at Hardy Industries
Sylvia Hart-Landsberg and Stephen Reder
List of Contributors
Index