Union Learning

Union Learning
Author: Jeffery M. Taylor
Publisher: Thompson Educational Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Labor unions and education
ISBN: 9781550771176

Over 100,000 Canadian workers participate annually in educational programs conducted by their union or the broader labour organizations to which their union belongs. Union-based education is the most significant non-vocational education available to working people. This activity has been going on for decades, and Jeffery Taylor's Union Learning: Canadian Labour Education in the Twentieth Century is the first comprehensive history of it. Union Learning chronicles the rise and decline of the Workers' Educational Association, the development of internal union educational programs, the consolidation of the Canadian Labour Congress's educational system after 1956, the origin and growth of the Labour College of Canada, and the patchy history of university and college involvement in labour education. Taylor argues that a new emphasis on broad-based and activist education today promises to rekindle the sense of an educational movement that was present in the labour movement in the 1930s and 1940s. The book includes a number of illustrative sidebars and photographs. He has developed a website containing images, video and other materials related to the history of labour education in Canada: http: //unionlearning.athabascau.ca

Thinking Union

Thinking Union
Author: D'Arcy Martin
Publisher: Between The Lines
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1995
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0921284969

Over the past seventeen years, trade union educator D'Arcy Martin has conducted hundreds of courses for Canadian workers. He has learned that there are people-"conscious romantics"-who dream of a more egalitarian world while confronting the obstacles that stand in the way of building it. This book provides a refreshing personal account of union culture and its dynamics.

Paths to Union Renewal

Paths to Union Renewal
Author: Pradeep Kumar
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781551930589

"The diverse cases and experiences examined in this book hold valuable lessons for labour everywhere." - Elaine Bernard, Harvard Law School

Trade Union Education

Trade Union Education
Author: Mike Seal
Publisher: New Internationalist
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1780264267

Trade union education is in the doldrums. It generally lacks modern ways of teaching and is full of outdated content and avoids history, economics and politics. This book demonstrates clearly that what is delivered in trade union education, and how it is delivered, have to be reformed and modernised. It successfully shows also how all trade unionists all over the world are educators in one way or another. Chapters cover the history, context and challenges in trade union education, the power of popular education techniques, trade union activism, community and social movements, practical examples of transformative new work and learning tips, learning materials and all those areas relevant to delivering impactful education.

Cracking Labour's Glass Ceiling

Cracking Labour's Glass Ceiling
Author: Cindy Hanson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-05
Genre: Labor unions
ISBN: 9781773632094

This edited collection is a vibrant, modern history of women-only labour education events.

Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership

Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership
Author: Sue Ledwith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415884853

Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various political organizational forms, especially trade unions, but also including business and management approaches, leadership forms which arise from fields such as community, pedagogy, and the third sector. This book analyzes and critiques concepts, expectations, and experiences of union leaders and leadership in labor organizations, while comparing gender and cultural perspectives. Contributors to the volume draw on empirical research to identify key ideas, beliefs and experiences which are critical to achieving change, setting up resistance, and transforming the inertia of traditionalism.

Canada

Canada
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1988
Genre: Labor
ISBN:

Education for Changing Unions

Education for Changing Unions
Author: Bev Burke
Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Education for Changing Unions presents a rich, stimulating, and provocative storehouse of practical and structured activities, ideas, and debate about union education. Written in a clear and accessible style, the authors have created a book to inspire working people and teachers in many settings and locations. All the exercises and activities have been widely tested. Six thematic threads tie the book together: community, democracy, equity, class consciousness, organization building, and the greater good. Evaluation, strategic planning, and survival for the long haul round out the discussion. See also the popular companion book, Educating for a Change, Martin et al. (BTL, 1991).

International Encyclopedia of Adult Education

International Encyclopedia of Adult Education
Author: L. English
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 763
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 134972520X

The Encyclopedia of Adult Education is the first comprehensive reference work in this important and fast-growing field, and is an invaluable resource for adult educators who research and teach in the fields of higher education, work in community-based settings, or practise in public or private organizations. Its 170+ articles, written by an international team of contributors from over 17 countries, detail the research and practice of the field from its emergence as a separate discipline to the present day, covering key concepts, issues and individuals and providing a cutting-edge summary of ongoing debates across a wide range of perspectives, from self-directed learning to human resource development. Entries are arranged A-Z and extensive cross-referenced, with detailed bibliographies for each topic to facilitate further research.