Learning with Trade Unions

Contents: Foreword, Brendan Barber; Section I Union Learning: Setting the Scene: Introduction, Steve Shelley and Moira Calveley; An historical overview of trade union involvement in education and learning, Moira Calveley; Trade union learning in the international context, Moira Calveley; Tackling the UK skills problem: can unions make a difference?, Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne. Section II Union Learning: Actions and Outcomes: A beneficial combination? Learning opportunities from union involvement in career and pay progression, Anne McBride and Stephen Mustchin; Have laptop, will travel: case studies in union learning, David Wray; The outcomes and usefulness of union learning, Steve Shelley; Becoming visible? Notes on work, union learning and education, Keith Forrester. Section III Union Learning and Union Renewal: Integrating learning into workplace bargaining. Case studies of evolving trade union learning agreements, Mark Stuart and Emma Wallis; The longer-term influence of women-only trade union schools, Gill Kirton; Multiple partnerships in trade union learning, Steve Shelley. Section IV Developing a Future Agenda: Globalisation and trade union education, John Stirling; New developments in union learning, Liz Rees; Towards a future agenda in union learning: developing a sustainable distinctiveness, Steve Shelley and Moira Calveley; Index.