How Do We Tell the Workers?: The Socioeconomic Foundations of Work and Vocational Education

This book analyzes the ways that workers are ＂educated＂ to fit into the contemporary labor-unfriendly economic system, illustrating the manner in which the vocational education shapes the politics of the era. It is important reading for policy makers, labor leaders, and educators.

Joe L. Kincheloe is professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College. He is the author of more than 30 books and hundreds of articles. His most recent works include Critical Pedagogy: A Primer, and The Sign of the Burger: McDonald’s and the Culture of Power. Kincheloe and Shirley Steinberg have recently finished 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City.