Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital / / Evan Watkins.
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...
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Watkins, Evan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital / Evan Watkins. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (184 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literacy and Human Capital -- 1. Capitalizing on Autonomy -- 2. Arrivals and Departures: Just in the Nick of Time -- 3. Star Power -- 4. Capital Divisions and Literacy Work -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Capitalism. Human capital. Internet Social aspects. Work Social aspects. Economics. Education. Labor Studies. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy. bisacsh Literacy work. adjectival literacy. attention economy. class division. commons based production. educational reform. income inequality. just-in-time human capital. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110729030 print 9780823264223 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823264254 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823264254 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823264254/original |
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