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Brown, Tony; Yasukawa, Keiko; Black, Stephen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2014
A policy consensus has emerged in Australia that there is a workforce literacy and numeracy crisis, similar to many other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. The study informing this paper examined this framing of crisis by interviewing and observing production workers in three manufacturing companies. Each company was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Literacy Education, Numeracy

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