Trade Unions, Worker Education and the Climate Crisis
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GJA has been publicising the instalments of Stuart Tannock’s research as they’ve emerged over the last year or two. Here is the fourth part of this fascinating and comprehensive study that will provide an invaluable resource in building the workforce needed for a future that meets the challenge of climate change.
In Stuart’s own words:
I am sending you a copy of the fourth publication that has come out of my research on trade unions, worker education and climate crisis in the UK that you participated in last year:
Green Shoots: Political Education in the UK Trade Union Movement on the Climate Crisis
Labor Studies Journal
ABSTRACT
In labor, climate and social movement organizing contexts, calls have been made for the importance of political education; yet the meaning of political education is often left poorly defined. This article argues that what is usually being called for is a model of radical (political) education. Using the example of political education developed by the UK trade union movement to address the climate crisis, the article suggests how a model of radical education can help to identify and understand gaps and limitations in attempts to develop effective political education for building power to create a more just and sustainable world.
The article is open access, and you are very welcome to share the online link with others. I hope that it might be of some interest and use.
Thanks again for taking the time to meet and speak with me for this research.
Best wishes,
Stuart
Stuart Tannock
UCL Institute of Education
University College London