New Workplaces, New Literacies, New Identities

Examines literacy and work in a high-performance workplace: a factory in South Africa. Conducts the study where workers have secure jobs and are part of a globalised enterprise with a declared policy of empowering workers. Shows that the employees commonly experience their workplace as a highly stre...

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Published in:Journal of adolescent & adult literacy 2001-05, Vol.44 (8), p.710-713
Main Authors: Scholtz, Selwyn, Prinsloo, Mastin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult Literacy
Agricultural Skills
Basic Skills
Blue collar workers
Cross Cultural Studies
Employee Empowerment
Employees
Empowerment
Factories
Factory labor
Foreign Countries
Higher Education
Illiteracy
Keyboarding (Data Entry)
Labor Force
Leaders
Literacy
Machinery operators
Rail lines
Social Problems
South Africa
Teamwork
Work Attitudes
Work Environment
Workforce
Workplace Literacy
Workplaces
Written Language
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Summary:Examines literacy and work in a high-performance workplace: a factory in South Africa. Conducts the study where workers have secure jobs and are part of a globalised enterprise with a declared policy of empowering workers. Shows that the employees commonly experience their workplace as a highly stressful environment where new learning and empowerment are limited and very uneven across the workforce. (SG)
ISSN:1081-3004
1936-2706