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1. From voluntarism to post-voluntarism Author : Bert Clough
The emerging role of unions in the vocational education and training system. The paper is a revised version of the chapter "From Spear Holders to Stakeholders: The Emerging Role of Unions in the UK Learning and Skills System" by Be...

Friday, 27 July 2007 | Read more...

2. From Spearholders to Stakeholders Author : TUC Organisation & Services Department
This article outlines the history of union involvement in training from the neo-corporatism of the 1960/70s, through the voluntarism of the 1980/90s, to the present “post voluntary” era. It concludes that although there has been significa...

Monday, 16 October 2006 | Read more...

3. Families Against Corporate Killers Author : Rory ONeill
Families against corporate killers (fack) launched Hundreds of people are killed by work every year in incidents the Health and Safety Executive say should have been prevented. Relatives of people killed at work have launched a national camp...

Tuesday, 01 August 2006 | Read more...

4. Flexible labour and informalisation in post-communism. Author : Charles Woolfson
Today, much is heard about the need for ‘labour flexibility’ and for necessary employee ‘adaptability’ to the demands of the increasingly globalised economy. Flexibility is often seen as a good thing in itself. To ordinary wor...

Thursday, 01 June 2006 | Read more...

5. From Global Union Federations to Global Unions? Playing to the strengths of democracy Author : Steve Davies
When companies are local, unions can be local; when companies are national, unions must be national; when companies are global, unions must be global. (UNI, 2006) “Global-” has become an almost ubiquitous prefix for organisations...

Tuesday, 25 April 2006 | Read more...


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