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Yasukawa, Keiko; Brown, Tony; Black, Stephen – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
This paper first examines the current literacy and numeracy "crisis" in Australian workplaces where loss of productivity, lack of take-up in training, and skills shortages are being blamed on workers' lack of literacy and numeracy skills. Literacy and numeracy in workplaces are more complex and require alternative understandings of…
Descriptors: Workplace Literacy, Unions, Numeracy, Foreign Countries
Brown, Tony – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: Trade unions, like many other membership-based social movement organisations, are confronted by the challenge of growth and revitalisation. Declining membership numbers, an increasingly restrictive legislative framework, and dramatic changes in modes of employment have combined to challenge many unions to rethink the way they work. In…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Unions, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Brown, Tony – International Journal of Training Research, 2006
This paper reports on research into a national education program within one of Australia's largest trade unions. The program was designed to assist the union's staff and elected officials respond to the rapidly changing industrial and political conditions in the manufacturing sector. It is ambitious in scope comprising sixteen modules that range…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Manufacturing, Unions, Politics