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Book SynopsisShines a light on how modern education shapes students into becoming compliant workers.
Trade Review'Katharyne Mitchell's Making Workers is an exemplary analysis of the structural forces, networks, discourses, and practices shaping educational systems from compulsory education through to higher education, including life-long learning. Given the importance of education systems to the production of citizens as well as the work-force, Mitchell’s book is a must-read for all interested in the future of economy and society' -- Kris Olds, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
'A beautifully written and highly engaging account of neoliberalism and it’s still unfolding capture of our public educational institutions, teachers and students... This book should be at the top of the reading list for all who wish to understand the impacts of the last forty years of transformation in education as well as those who wish to join the struggle to save our schools and our children' -- Sallie A. Marston, Professor, School of Geography and Development and Director, Community and School Garden Program, University of Arizona
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Series Preface
Part I: Geographies of Work and Education
1. Spatial Divisions of Labor and the Search for Jobs
2. Creating the Entrepreneurial Child
Part II: Flexible Work, Strategic Workers
3. From Multicultural Citizen to Global Businessman
4. Geographies of Lifelong Learning and the Knowledge Economy (co-authored with Key MacFarlane)
5. Global Restructuring and Challenges to Citizenship
Part III: The Reform Coalition
6. Market Philanthropy in Education
7. The Choice Machine and the Road to Privatization (co-authored with Key MacFarlane)
Part IV: Geographies of Resistance, Acts of Citizenship
8. Taking Back our Schools and Cities
9. Conclusion: Paying Deep Attention
Notes
Index
