How Do We Tell The Workers?

Joe Kincheloe

• Foreword -- The Nature of Work -- A Sense of Purpose -- Modernism and the Evolution of the Technocratic Mind -- Power and the Development of the Modernist Economy -- Good Work, Bad Work, and the Debate over Ethical Labor -- The Historical Dimensions of Vocational Education -- The Origins of Vocational Education -- The Progressive Debate, the Victory of Vocationalism, and the Institutionalization of Schooling for Work -- Failures and Reforms: The Recent History of Vocational Education -- Coping with and Directing Change -- Post-Fordism and Technopower: The Changing Economic and Political Arena -- Democratic Post-Fordist Workplaces and Debating the Changing Purposes of Vocational Education -- Confronting and Rethinking Educational Theory: Critical Vocational Pedagogy and Workers as Researchers -- Race, Class, and Gender -- Plausible Deniability: The Skeleton in Vocational Education's Closet -- A Touch of Class -- Accounting for Gender -- Howlin' Wolf at the Door: Race, Racism, and Vocational Education -- The Role of Labor and Unions in Vocational Education -- Democratic Unionism in the Global Economy and Corporate-Directed Vocational Education -- The New Unionism and the Struggle for a Democratic Social Movement -- A Vision of Government, Vocational Education, and the Future -- Worker Civics: The Decline of the Nation-State and the Rise of Corporate Government -- A Reconceptualized Government for the Twenty-First Century