Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Working in Commercial ELT
Chapter 2. Commodity and Capital
Chapter 3. A Dialectical Approach to Contradiction in Language Work
Chapter 4. Dialectically Defining Eikaiwa
Chapter 5. Work in Commercial Eikaiwa
Chapter 6. Asking Questions of Value
Chapter 7. The Production of the Eikaiwa Lesson
Chapter 8. The Distribution of Value within Eikaiwa
Chapter 9. ‘Good Money for Someone, Not Teachers’: Class and the Fetishisation of Capital
Chapter 10. Towards a Political Economy of ELT Globally, and through the Covid 19 Pandemic
Appendix
Appendix I Transcription Conventions
Index
Biography
William Simpson is a Junior Associate Professor of the Liberal Arts Department of Tokyo University of Science, Japan. He has published work on language education, ideology, and political economy in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, as well as in special issues of Language Sciences, and Language and Intercultural Communication.
"Teaching eikaiwa (English conversation) in Japan constitutes a large commercial industry that pursues capitalist profitmaking. Focusing on this marketplace, Simpson’s work uniquely illuminates teachers as precarious labourers being expected to produce Taylorised lessons and meet students’ satisfaction. The book provides an original perspective on the alienation of English teachers."
Ryuko Kubota, University of British Columbia, Canada
