"If knowledge is power, you're about to become very powerful": Literacy and labor market intermediaries in postindustrial America

Michael Pennell

"If knowledge is power, you're about to become very powerful": Literacy and labor market intermediaries in postindustrial America

Michael Pennell

Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

7 Scopus citations

Abstract

This article explores the connections between literacy, economy, and place through an examination of labor market intermediaries (LMIs). In particular, the article addresses the shifting role of LMIs over the past thirty years in Lake County, Indiana, and how they have developed as literacy sponsors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	345-384
Number of pages	40
Journal	College Composition and Communication
Volume	58
Issue number	3
State	Published - Feb 2007

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education
Language and Linguistics
Literature and Literary Theory

Cite this

@article{36ead4970b48436390812359f5dfecd3,

title = "{"}If knowledge is power, you're about to become very powerful{"}: Literacy and labor market intermediaries in postindustrial America",

abstract = "This article explores the connections between literacy, economy, and place through an examination of labor market intermediaries (LMIs). In particular, the article addresses the shifting role of LMIs over the past thirty years in Lake County, Indiana, and how they have developed as literacy sponsors.",

author = "Michael Pennell",

year = "2007",

month = feb,

language = "English",

volume = "58",

pages = "345--384",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - "If knowledge is power, you're about to become very powerful"

T2 - Literacy and labor market intermediaries in postindustrial America

AU - Pennell, Michael

PY - 2007/2

Y1 - 2007/2

N2 - This article explores the connections between literacy, economy, and place through an examination of labor market intermediaries (LMIs). In particular, the article addresses the shifting role of LMIs over the past thirty years in Lake County, Indiana, and how they have developed as literacy sponsors.

AB - This article explores the connections between literacy, economy, and place through an examination of labor market intermediaries (LMIs). In particular, the article addresses the shifting role of LMIs over the past thirty years in Lake County, Indiana, and how they have developed as literacy sponsors.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34147191480&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=34147191480&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:34147191480

SN - 0010-096X

VL - 58

SP - 345

EP - 384

JO - College Composition and Communication

JF - College Composition and Communication

IS - 3

ER -

"If knowledge is power, you're about to become very powerful": Literacy and labor market intermediaries in postindustrial America

Abstract

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this