Making Knowledge Common: Literacy & Knowledge at Work

Explaining that knowledge in the workplace is not transmitted by texts, but rather created and transformed by and with texts, Farrell (education, Monash U., Australia) explores how individual workers and groups of people in factories, offices, and workshop use textual practice to make knowledge common in the global economic arena, and what is at stake when they do. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)