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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 economic structure in the United States. It is about how literacies become forms of value producing labor in everyday life both within and beyond the workplace itself.As Evan Watkins shows, apprehending the meaning of literacy work requires an understanding of how literacies have changed in relation to not only technology but also to labor, capital, and economics. The emergence of new literacies has produced considerable debate over basic definitions as well as the complexities of gain and loss. At the same time, the visibility of these debates between advocates of old versus new literacies has obscured the development of more fundamental changes. Most significantly, Watkins argues, it is no longer possible to represent human capital solely as the kind of long-term resource that Gary Becker and other neoclassical economists have defined. Like corporate inventory and business management practices, human capital-labor-now also appears in a "just-in-time" form, as if a power of action on the occasion rather than a capital asset in reserve.Just-in-time human capital valorizes the expansion of choice, but it depends absolutely on the invisible literacy work consigned to the peripheries of concentrated human capital. In an economy wherein peoples' attention begins to eclipse information as a primary commodity, a small number of choices appear with an immensely magnified intensity while most others disappear entirely. As Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital deftly illustrates, the concentration of human labor in the digital age reinforces and extends a class division of winners on the inside of technological innovation and losers everywhere else.

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Publié par	Fordham University Press
Date de parution	01 juillet 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780823264254
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Literacy and Human Capital Capitalizing on Autonomy Arrivals and Departures: Just in te Nick of Time Star Power Capital Divisions and Literacy Work

Works Cited Index

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Acknowledgments

I ave mined David Ruccio’s expertise about all tings economic tat appear in tis book, from Adam Smit and Marx to Oliver Williamson, and I ave beneﬁted over and over from is gener-ous willingness to sare tat expertise. I want to tank Ann Miller for a superb job of copy editing, making far more of te manuscript intelligible tan I would ave tougt possible. I am fortunate to write surrounded by family support. I rely more tan anyting on my wife, Diane Logan Watkins, and my son and daugter-in-law, Cristoper Watkins and Amy Mari-nelli. Cris’s wide-ranging knowledge of digital literacies, lit-eracy uses, and business practices tat involve multiple literacies as been especially invaluable for tis book. And my wondrous and magical grandcild, Clara Bay, limns te literacies to come. I was blessed to work wit Helen Tartar for more tan tirty-ﬁve years and now ﬁve books. Everyting seemed to be-long witin er vast orbit of passionate intelligence, and like everyone se knew, I’ll miss er so muc.