For my blog post, I am drawing from the Deborah Brandt reading, Sponsors of Literacy. I was particularly interested in the case of\u00a0Dwayne Lowery. This man, who had no formal education beyond high school, went from a floor laborer in an automobile factory to a field staff representative in his local labor union only to be forced into early retirement when his job was replaced by a young college educated person.<\/p>\n
This case is interesting to me because during this man’s career,\u00a0a transformation of \u00a0important\u00a0literacy skills occurred. The bargaining skills that were part of Mr. Lowery’s success as a union representative began to be\u00a0outweighed by the\u00a0 “essayist literacy” skills of the college graduates who replaced him and people like him. This change of literacy was a result of the increasingly levels of literacy, and the competitive advantage this brought, between union reps and the attorneys those reps negotiated with<\/p>\n
In the state of the modern union, the years of experience and literacy skills developed by Mr. Lowery were not enough to for him to keep his job. I would like to for\u00a0discussion, the perceived value of Mr. Lowery’s literacy skills. Would, by today’s standards, Mr. Lowery’s skills still be considered useful? I would also like to explore what brought upon those literary transformations. In the same vain, what kind of lessons can be learned from Mr. Lowery’s experience. Are there ways to predict and better prepare for literacy transformations like those experienced by Mr. Lowery?<\/p>\n
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