This paper describes four successful and innovative workplace-based literacy programs in the South. The first is a joint program for city municipal workers between the U.S. Naval Air Station in Memphis, Tennessee and the Memphis Literacy Coalition (Project Literacy-Memphis, Inc.). The second is a program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh that serves the school's custodial and maintenance staff. A third is a program at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Virginia, operated jointly with the local high school. The last is a citywide cooperative effort involving four employers in Albertville, Alabama. In addition, a concluding section summarizes some of the steps that Southern Growth Policies Board states have taken over the past year to meet the objective of the 1986 Commission on the Future of the South to "mobilize resources to eliminate adult illiteracy by 1992." (YLB)