Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Labor - Unions

Amidst the reverberations of neoliberalism, academia grapples with a rising precariat facing short-term contracts and heightened flexibility, particularly in adult, community, and vocational education. This escalating issue presents a myriad of challenges, creating a need for thoughtful exploration and meaningful solutions. Precarity, fueled by globalized politics, disproportionately impacts educators, creating a complex landscape. Within this context, the book Precarity, Unions, and Meaningful Work in Adult, Community, and Vocational Education emerges as a critical guide. By delving into the...

Amidst the reverberations of neoliberalism, academia grapples with a rising precariat facing short-term contracts and heightened flexibility, particularly in adult, community, and vocational education. This escalating issue presents a myriad of challenges, creating a need for thoughtful exploration and meaningful solutions. Precarity, fueled by globalized politics, disproportionately impacts educators, creating a complex landscape. Within this context, the book Precarity, Unions, and Meaningful Work in Adult, Community, and Vocational Education emerges as a critical guide. By delving into the...

Overworked? Underpaid? Frustrated with your boss?  This guide, based on the collective experience of organizers and workers in non-unionized workplaces, is a critical tool to help you and your coworkers organize for justice at work.  Unite and Win covers the core elements of organizing at work — developing an organizing committee, having organizing conversations, taking collective action, and inoculating yourselves against the boss’s inevitable response.  The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) provides support and training to non-union workers organizing for...