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- Title
The Missing Link in Labor Education.
- Authors
Schachhuber, Dieter
- Abstract
This article presents information on the scope, focus and functions of labor education. It is informed that most organizations use education as a means to instill the values and to develop the skills which foster effective leadership control, and which help maintain existing tradition and structure. Stable organizations are predictable and manageable and are therefore desirable from the leadership point of view. Such education is necessary in each organization. Labor studies as an academic discipline "encompasses the study of a worldwide social, economic, political, psychological and ideological mass movement which affects every aspect of national life in both the civilized and developing areas of the world." It is opined that labor education must strive to satisfy the need of integrating individual, organizational and societal goals. Ideally, such education should be provided by unions and/or central labor bodies because of their understanding of workers' needs, their identification with workers, their credibility, and their presumed leadership role. The union movement, however, has not been fully equal to this educational task. It has restricted its educational efforts to skill training, socialization and indoctrination, problem solving, and some human relations training.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LABOR; LABOR unions &; education; EDUCATION; LABOR disputes; LEADERSHIP; LABOR unions; EMPLOYEES; INTERPERSONAL relations
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 1979, Vol 4, Issue 2, p148
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article