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Organisational Learning: How Organising Changes Education in Trade Unions

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Australian trade unions in the 1980s and 1990s sought to influence and guide the restructuring of vocational and workplace education policy, to widen participation in education and training, and establish partnership arrangements with government and business in order to promote international competitiveness. Since the mid 1990s, however, the changed contours of the labour market, and a steady decline in both the numbers of union members and density rates, accompanied by legislative attacks on the right to organise, led many unions to shift their emphasis to organising new members. Education was identified as a critical factor in preparing unions to undertake this new effort and as a means of changing union culture. This article studies the changes in union education that flowed from one union's new concentration on developing capacity for organising for growth, and examines the new ways of knowing that resulted among officers and activists.

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  • Tony Brown, 2007. "Organisational Learning: How Organising Changes Education in Trade Unions," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 17(2), pages 165-181, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:17:y:2007:i:2:p:165-181
    DOI: 10.1177/103530460701700210
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