Description: Shines a light on how modern education shapes students into becoming compliant workers.
Brief description: Katharyne Mitchell is Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author and editor of several books, including Practicising Public Scholarship (2008).
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Katharyne Mitchell's Making Workers is an exemplary analysis of the structural forces, networks, discourses, and practices shaping educational systems from compulsory education through to higher education, including life-long learning. Given the importance of education systems to the production of citizens as well as the work-force, Mitchell's book is a must-read for all interested in the future of economy and society', Kris Olds, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison