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Explores from a class perspective the adult education movement and union-sponsored educational and communication activities in English-speaking Canada. Assesses historic British and US influences, changes in communication technology. and Canadian state interventions (such as the founding of the National Film Board) on the development of adult and union education. The latter was instrumental in character (e.g., grievance handling) and premissed on working within the capitalist order. Adult education was ambiguous in terms of class, coalescing on an activist definition of citizenship that had social democratic overtones, although the Cold War years somewhat chilled this more left-leaning approach. In contrast, the Saskatchewan CCF government's radical experiment in adult education was short-lived. Public relations efforts by unions also fell short, as did establishment of a labour press, and articulating a vision of the social order beyond capitalism. The growing inflluence of US-dominated corporations, including on media, has had a profound effect since the 1970s. Concludes that this raises questions whether working people will be able enter the debate, let alone participate effectively, as society confronts new cultural, economic, and political challenges.
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Discusses the Manitoba Federation of Labour-University of Manitoba three-year certificate program and the students who enroll in it. Describes the impetus for the program and reports on interviews with six 1978-79 graduates in order to assess the impact both of the the program and the distinctive labour history course, originally designed and taught economist H. Clare Pentland, that was particularly successful. Concludes that more consideration be given to course design and pedagogy to create teaching and learning experiences that are memorable.
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The article reviews several books edited by Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee including "A People's History of Australia Since 1788: Constructing a Culture," "A People's History of Australia Since 1788: Staining the Wattle," and "A People's History of Australia Since 1788: Making a Life."
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Examines the connections between the Socialist Party of Canada and the labour movement in the West. Worker unrest and dedicated party members led to the temporary success of the Socialist Party in Canada. The author analyzes how the Party affected the events of spring 1919, including secessions from the Trades and Labour Congress, the establishment of the One Big Union, and a strike wave.
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This essay investigates the formal and informal educational pursuits of the labour movements and working-class communities of Australia and Canada. It suggests that worker education in the two countries was conducted by similar institutions, notably by branches of England's Workers Educational Association (WEA) but within very different cultural contexts. By juxtaposing these two national cases we demonstrate that labour's reliance on such community-wide institutions was mediated by the relationship between the labour movements and informal networks of working class interaction, on the one hand, and the body politic, on the other. Australia's prominent labour movement and strong tradition of public working class interaction enabled community-wide educational activities to be challenged. In Canada, by contrast, the collaborative nature of adult education and the "tools courses" taught by unions represented a different consensus about the nature of class identity and the place of unions in national politics.
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Discusses the evolution of the Mennonite approach to labour relations in Manitoba with reference to an unsuccessful unionization drive at Palliser Furniture in Winnipeg in the 1990s.
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