On the Problem of Foundation Skills and the Futures of Work

by Peter Kelly and Garry Argent

This book provides an analysis of how global capitalism, digital disruption, and new worlds of work have reshaped ideas about language, literacy and numeracy (foundation) skills in a neoliberal foundation skills apparatus in Australia since the 1980s.

The book uses Michel Foucault's genealogical approach to producing critical 'histories of our present'. From this perspective it examines how these disruptions have transformed what was once...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004724451
• ISBN13: 9789004724457
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Brill