The Importance of Workplace Learning for Trade Unions: A Study of the Steel Industry

Autor/inn/en	Stroud, Dean; Fairbrother, Peter
Titel	The Importance of Workplace Learning for Trade Unions: A Study of the Steel Industry
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 30 (2008) 3, S.231-245 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
Schlagwörter	Employment Potential; Industry; Unions; Vocational Education; Labor Force Development; Foreign Countries; Lifelong Learning; Continuing Education; Education Work Relationship; Economic Change; Social Change; Work Environment; Training; Metallurgy; Organizational Climate; Organizational Culture; Organizational Development; Organizational Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Industrie; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Arbeitskräftebestand; Ausland; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Weiterbildung; Ökonomischer Wandel; Sozialer Wandel; Arbeitsmilieu; Hüttenwesen; Organisationsklima; Unternehmenskultur; Organisationsentwicklung; Organisationstheorie
Abstract	This paper is concerned with the relationship between trade unions and learning in the workplace, particularly in relation to the enhancement of worker employability profiles. With the restructuring and modernising of the European steel industry as its context, this paper argues that the organisational and structural features of a sector have a profound influence on the way workplace learning is organised. Equally, trade union organisation and approaches also shape the learning agenda. In the steel industry, trade unions have failed to address the significance of workplace learning, partly because of the ways that they approach this topic. In the context of traditional sectors, with relatively vulnerable workforces, the weakened state of union bargaining positions means that they have limited capacity to address workforce employability or workplace participation. The outcome is that trade union involvement in skill formation and workplace learning is marginal. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10