English-in-the-Workplace for Garment Workers: A Feminist Project?.

Harper, Helen; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ526904

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Publication Date: 1996

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English-in-the-Workplace for Garment Workers: A Feminist Project?

Harper, Helen; And Others

Gender and Education, v8 n1 p5-19 Mar 1996

Examines the connection between an English-in-the-workplace (EWP) class and the linguistic behavior of immigrant women garment factory employees. Results suggest that newly acquired English skills may be reinforcing linguistic behavior that reconstitutes traditional relations between workers and management. However, EWP does not appear to empower or necessarily to work in the best interest of the women. (GR)

Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Criticism, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Empowerment, English Instruction, Ethnic Groups, Feminism, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Interpersonal Competence, Limited English Speaking, Minority Groups, Program Evaluation

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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