Learning and adapting for organisational change: researching union education in Australia

摘要: The last quarter century saw a restructuring of employment, production and trade dramatic decline in union membership density levels. There are many explanations for this, including the hostile industrial relations framework imposed by governments, but there have been other factors such as growth new non-unionised industries that often rely on casualised labour; attitudes to unions younger workers; political/cultural workers' movement under neo-liberalism; an inability adapt these changes. Now economic changes arising from global financial crisis will see increased unemployment further industry restructuring, along with re-skilling implications climate change, pose challenges unions. Drawing research senior Australian officials about movement's education training activities this paper considers relevance adaptive systems literature underst...