Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface 1
4. Introduction 11
5. Section 1: Literacies at work 31
6. 1. Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the firstdemocratic national elections in South Africa 33
7. 2. Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape 49
8. 3. Literacy and communication in a Cape factory 65
9. 4. Communicative practices of the service staff of a school 85
10. Section 2: Mediating literacies 103
11. 5. Literacy mediation and social identity in Newton, Easter Cape 105
12. 6. Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies 123
13. 7. Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South 141
14. 8. ‘We can all sing, but we can’t all talk’ 157
15. Section 3: Contextualising literacies: policy lessons 173
16. 9. Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity 177
17. 10. “We are waiting/ this is our home’ 197
18. 11. Taking literacy for a ride — reading and writing in the taxi industry 213
19. 12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula 235
20. Afterword 257
21. References 265
22. Index 275