The study of workplace literacy programs at Cableco, a cable manufacturing factory in Silicon Valley, California, demonstrates that conceiving of language as a discrete workplace skill can be dangerous. The study illustrates how discursive practices can create unequal institutional power relations while simultaneously providing a small space for workers to contest management's attempts to reshape their identities through language.

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