Learning with Trade Unions

Steve Shelley is Principal Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Centre for Research in Employment Studies, University of Hertfordshire Business School, UK. Moira Calveley is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Employment Studies, University of Hertfordshire Business School, UK.

• 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.

'Growing trade union involvement in workplace learning has been a key innovation in UK skills policy in the last decade. This excellent volume provides a thoroughly-researched, critical and comprehensive review of the topic'. Ewart Keep, Cardiff University, Wales 'With a wealth of information and insight into the different aspects of learning and unions, this collection provides much food for thought for policy-makers, practitioners and researchers.' Transfer 'This edited volume is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the modern-day trade union learning agenda allied to the rise of union learning representatives (ULRs) in the United Kingdon.' Journal of In-service Education