The Re-Education of the American Working Class

Herausgeber: London, Steven H.; Wilson, Joseph F.; Tarr, Elvira R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This work brings together articles and papers by union leaders, activists, social scientists, and educators to provide an overview of the field of worker education. Along with presenting the major historical models of worker education, the book addresses the present issues confronting worker educators today. The book's final sections present alternative models of worker education that illustrate a variety of approaches currently being employed. All selections found in this volume represent original contributions not published elsewhere. The first section of the book considers the field of worker education from four levels of social determinism: institutional, ideological, pedagogical, and personal. The second part focuses on three historical stages of worker education. The articles cover the early radical phase of worker education, the period of union-university cooperation, and the current, dominant union-sponsored model of worker education. The third section considers issues which have risen from worker education's history, institutional configurations, and worker education's place in modern American society. The final section of the book presents evaluations of working alternatives to the dominant models of worker education. The authors not only discuss specific programs and institutions, but they do so in the context of the historical models outlined in the first two sections and the issues raised in Part 3. This book will be of value to students of the social science and education disciplines, adult and labor educators, trade unionists, and others interested in this burgeoning field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780313267857
• ISBN-10: 0313267855
• Artikelnr.: 25567289

Autorenporträt

STEVEN H. LONDON is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and teaches at the Graduate Center for Worker Education at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. ELVIRA R. TARR is Professor of Education at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. JOSEPH F. WILSON is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and teaches at the Graduate Center for Worker Education at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Joseph S. Murphy Introduction Overview of the Field of Worker
Education Labor Education: A Growth Sector in a Stagnant Industry by
Everette J. Freeman and Dale G. Brickner The New Labor Education: A Return
to Ideology by Stanley Aronwitz Worker Education: Developing an Approach to
Worker Empowerment by Gregory Mantsios The Modes of Worker Education: An
Insider's View by Gus Tyler Historical Models of Worker Education
Union-based Labor Education: Lessons from the ILGWU by Elvira R. Tarr
Brookwood Labor College by Jonathan D. Bloom The Wayne State University
Institute of Industrial Relations: Worker Education Was Not Meant to Be by
Michael Kahan Labor Education and the AFL-CIO by Carolyn J. Jacobson
Current Issues in Worker Education Worker Education and Building the Union
Movement by Steven H. London Corporate Responses to the Demand for a
High-Tech Workforce by Brent Andrew High-Tech Skills: The Latest Corporate
Assault on Workers by Douglas D. Noble Worker Education and Education
Reform of the Sixties by Gretchen L. Johnson Information as a Political
Resource in the Age of Worker Education by Ronald Berkman Re-educating the
U.S. Working Class on Race and Class by Gerald Horne Racism, Male
Chauvinism, and Worker Education by Joseph F. Wilson Alternative Models for
Worker Education The Consortium for Worker Education: The Possibilities and
Constraints for Union-based Schooling by Sheila D. Collins Worker Education
in Western Europe by Rita Bladt Putting Working People Back at the Center
of U.S. History by Stephen Brier Toward a Transformative Model of Worker
Education: A Freirean Perspective by Elsa Auerbach Sophocles Comes to the
Supermarket: Worker-Students and Higher Education by Leonard Kriegel
Promises, Promises, Promises: An Education for Working Adults at Empire
State College by Sylvain Nagler Bread and Roses: A Cultural Model of Worker
Education by Moe Foner Bibliographical Essay Index