The Politics of Workplace Literacy

by Sheryl Greenwood Gowen

Book Overview

A nine-month long workplace literacy programme at a southern hospital is the setting for Sheryl Greenwood Gowen's case study The Politics of Workplace Literacy. Using ethnographic techniques, story-telling, and carefully documented observations of workplace relations, the author brings this literacy programme to life, illustrating how classism, racism and sexism continue to be part of the workplace environment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807732133
• ISBN13: 9780807732137
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"