Trade unions and other sites of community-labour organizing such as workers centres are rich, yet contested spaces of education and knowledge production in which both non-formal and informal / incidental forms of learning occur. Putting forward a critique of dominant strands of worker education, the authors ask what spaces exist for social…

Surveyed 121 Canadian social workers on their attitudes toward strikes. Results showed subjects had little experience with strikes although 80 percent had no objection in principle to striking. Quality of service was a more important strike issue than traditional union concerns such as wages or job security. (Author/JAC)

The structure and scope of faculty unionization in American, British, and Canadian universities are compared. The importance of the legal foundation for unionization, the organizational characteristics of the unions, and the status of the bargaining contract are analyzed from the standpoint of their impact on management. (Author/MLW)

Data were collected from teacher and trustee representatives on negotiation teams in 13 school districts in Manitoba (Canada) to determine the effects of collective bargaining on the relationship between teachers and boards. Differences were found to center on the issue of authority in such areas as teaching conditions, staffing procedures, and…

The book records the development of the program of adult education and economic cooperation sponsored by St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The program dates from 1853 when a Catholic theological school was established at Arichat. In 1855 the school was transferred to Antigonish, named St. Francis Xavier, enlarged and…