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Out of over 40 years of experience in adult or worker education, David Greene brings us tools to develop consciousness and leadership for social change. Based on the power of our huge working class to understand this economic system and to organize, this book aims to empower educators, students and other workers with science applied to solving the serious social problems we face today.

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This book is a clarion call to adult educators to expand their repertoire to include understanding the political and economic system in order to mobilize against it. . . This brief volume is filled with anecdotes, both infuriating and hopeful, exemplifying both oppressive and liberating educational practices in the ongoing struggle against unfettered Capitalism. . . Beyond its critique of current practice, Unfit to Be a Slave is a manual for popular educators working for social change. It provides broad avenues for generating eye opening discussions of economic and political barriers to our freedom. Examples are drawn largely from popular education, but suggested topics and themes are relevant to more formal venues as well. -in: Adult Education Quarterly (2016) Outstanding book. . . This highly illuminating and quite often autobiographical book is substantially enriched through the author's forty years of teaching in adult education in the USA providing a wealth of insights, factual case studies (auto workers union and mining unions, etc. ) as well as a historical overview of adult education. This is considerably improved through international comparisons (Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, etc. ). Greene's exquisite book is divided into eight well structured, methodical and didactically superbly crafted chapters starting with `learning for life'that presents the basics of critical pedagogy. -in: Australian Universities' Review (2016)

This book is a clarion call to adult educators to expand their repertoire to include understanding the political and economic system in order to mobilize against it. . . This brief volume is filled with anecdotes, both infuriating and hopeful, exemplifying both oppressive and liberating educational practices in the ongoing struggle against unfettered Capitalism. . . Beyond its critique of current practice, Unfit to Be a Slave is a manual for popular educators working for social change. It provides broad avenues for generating eye opening discussions of economic and political barriers to our freedom. Examples are drawn largely from popular education, but suggested topics and themes are relevant to more formal venues as well. -in: Adult Education Quarterly (2016) Outstanding book. . . This highly illuminating and quite often autobiographical book is substantially enriched through the author's forty years of teaching in adult education in the USA providing a wealth of insights, factual case studies (auto workers union and mining unions, etc. ) as well as a historical overview of adult education. This is considerably improved through international comparisons (Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, etc. ). Greene's exquisite book is divided into eight well structured, methodical and didactically superbly crafted chapters starting with `learning for life'that presents the basics of critical pedagogy. -in: Australian Universities' Review (2016)

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