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Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital (Hardcover)
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Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital (Hardcover)
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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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