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What Role Can Trade Union Education Play in Enhancing Transnational Labour Solidarity?

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Föhrer, Bianca 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9213
Date Issued
August 2015
Date Available
02T12:02:35Z February 2018
Abstract
Trade union education is considered ‘a key resource for the construction of trade unionism’ (Bridgford and Stirling 2000: 5), or ‘the key to trade union capacity building’ (International Labour Organization 2007). Shelley (2007) and Spencer (2007) argue that trade union education can support union activism. Indeed, there is much empirical evidence where education played a vital role in forging successful cross-border solidarity action (e.g., Croucher 2004; Erne 2008; Novelli 2011). Despite the obvious importance of specialized education for workers’ representatives, research on trade union education has remained sparse (Ball 2003; Miller and Stirling 1998; Stirling 2007), not only in Europe, but also worldwide (Croucher and Cotton 2009). The purpose of this chapter is to address this gap. It proposes that educational activities can enhance transnational labour solidarity by creating five spaces: (1) space of encounter, (2) space of exchange, (3) space of insight, and (4) space of action. Together, they can form a further (5) space of development as a person as well as a group. The chapter argues furthermore that transnational labour solidarity requires educational activities that develop, besides knowledge and skills, appropriate attitudes. Crucial for creating attitudes is identity. The critical case study of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) EWC training shows that labour educational activities can develop both personal and collective transnational identity. Social identity building has arguably fallen too short in terms of reach, though.
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Series
Studies in Social and Global Justice
Copyright (Published Version)
2015 Rowman & Littlefield
Keywords
  • Trade union education...

  • Workers' representati...

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https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/labour_and_transnational_action_in_times_of_crisis/3-156-0031fd8b-045f-429b-9a58-1ca49380e656
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Part of
Bieler, A., Erne, R. Golden, D. et al. (eds.). Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis
ISBN
9781783482771
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
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