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Offers an analysis of what the authors describe as the new work order, theories which have swept the business world in the past few years emphasizing on-the-job learning, worker empowerment, collaboration, participatory decision making and so on. The authors argue that these enchanted workplaces are not as democratic or empowering as the rhetoric would have us believe, and that adult educators in particular need to be aware of the way in which this fast capitalism is disempowering certain groups.
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'Workplace democracy', 'empowerment', 'team leaders', 'knowledge workers', this is the language of management today. But does this language herald a brave new workplace? Or does it mask a new form of capitalism?
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James Paul Gee is Professor of Education at Clark University, Usa, and has an international reputation in the fields of critical literacy and sociolinguistics. Glynda Hull is Associate Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkely, and is co-director of the National Centre for the Study of Writing. Colin Lankshear is Professor in the School of Language and Literacy Education at Queensland University of Technology.
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