Running Shoes, Auto Workers, and Labor: Business Writing Pedagogy in the Working Class College

This article provided a great way to potentially use in the classroom. Part of my job teaching at ALCC requires that I engage my students in issues that might challenge them to think about issues that are happening around the world. As students living in a global world, they need to be critically aware and be able to formulate their thoughts and opinions. This is especially true for my upper level classes. The challenge is in bringing up potentially controversial topics that might cause discomfort in the classroom. I also have to think about setting up a comfortable atmosphere so that my students don’t feel like their opinions will be judged harshly. Our students come from all over the world and in many parts of the world right now there are things like political unrest and economic unrest that are deeply unsettling for my students that come from such unstable parts of the world such as Venezuela and Yemen.