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Lieberman, Abbie; Loewenberg, Aaron; Love, Ivy; Robertson, Cassandra; Tesfai, Lul – New America, 2021
From February to April, New America conducted over 30 interviews with experts, care providers, and union representatives, focusing on three states. This report outlines key considerations for improving care worker job quality through organizing. We also include case studies on care worker organizing in California, Illinois, Washington, and the…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care Occupations, Home Health Aides, Caregiver Attitudes
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Crimmins, Gail – Gender and Education, 2022
Despite decades of Equal Opportunity legislation, gender inequality persists in Australian universities. This is largely due to the shaping of universities by new market principles, discourses of individualisation that render the asymmetry of gender relations invisible, and privileging masculine epistemologies. Concurrently, industrial relations…
Descriptors: Feminism, Gender Issues, Sex Fairness, Higher Education
Collins, Christian; Gomez, Alejandra Londono – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2023
As children grow and develop, child care workers play a vital role in fostering learning and providing support in a safe and nurturing environment. High-quality child care jobs, where workers are valued and respected, benefit both workers and the children and families they serve. Unfortunately, the United States has historically undervalued the…
Descriptors: Unions, Child Care, Child Caregivers, Collective Bargaining
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Sebastián Ortiz-Mallegas; Claudia Carrasco-Aguilar; Antonio Luzón-Trujillo; Mónica Torres-Sánchez – SAGE Open, 2025
Teacher associations have historically been important agents of teacher advocacy. However, they are now facing challenges due to the crisis of traditional structures. This has allowed the emergence of new teacher associations that seek other forms of participation in educational governance. Via a comparative qualitative analysis of education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Associations, Political Attitudes
Jason A. Grissom; Jennifer D. Timmer; Jennifer L. Nelson; Richard S. L. Blissett – Grantee Submission, 2021
We investigate the male-female gap in principal compensation in state and national data: detailed longitudinal personnel records from Missouri and repeated cross-sections from the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). In both data sets, we estimate substantively important compensation gaps for school leaders. In Missouri,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Principals, Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration)
Jason A. Grissom; Jennifer D. Timmer; Jennifer L. Nelson; Richard S. L. Blissett – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
We investigate the male-female gap in principal compensation in state and national data: detailed longitudinal personnel records from the state of Missouri and repeated cross-sections from the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). In both data sets, we estimate substantively important compensation gaps for school leaders.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Principals, Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration)
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2018
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) represents 72,000 academic staff at universities and colleges across the country. CAUT strives for fair working conditions, compensation and benefits to foster quality teaching and innovative research while advancing equity and human rights within our profession. Many of the institutions where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Postsecondary Education, Unions
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Camacho, Sayil – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2020
This study details the research practices that were developed to operationalize the guiding principles of the transformative mixed methods design. A transformative, explanatory-sequential mixed methods design was utilized to examine the workplace experiences of academic migrants and findings from the study supported better work conditions for the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Self Concept, Migrants, Social Justice
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Lubienecki, Paul – Journal of Catholic Education, 2015
This article analyzes the effect of the American Catholic Church, through its program of specialized labor education, on the growth and development of organized labor in the twentieth century. With the proclamation of Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quadragesimo Anno (1931), he requested that the Church complete the work began by Pope Leo XIII in 1891…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Philosophy, Work Environment
Davis, Chuck, Ed.; DeAngelis, Tony, Ed. – 1990
This book contains 16 units with 1 to 6 lessons per unit. A wide range of subject areas regarding workers and organized labor are addressed with lessons for both primary and secondary education levels. Though the focus is predominantly on grades 1-6, the curriculum can be modified to apply to various grade levels. Unit titles include: (1) "Child…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor, Labor Conditions
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Athanasou, James A. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2010
The principle of decent work was first espoused in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since 1999 the International Labour Organisation has operated according to a Decent Work Agenda and in recent times the movement towards the provision of decent work as a means of improving the quality of life has gathered momentum. Decent work is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Civil Rights, Quality of Working Life
Van Tine, Warren R. – 1993
While the building and printing industries flourished in pre-Civil War Columbus, manufacturing languished. The manufacturing base grew and diversified from 1820 to 1850. Few unions emerged, and those that did seldom lasted long. During the Civil War business and manufacturing increased to serve the camps and prisons established in Columbus. When…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Conditions, Labor Demands
McCarthy, Justin – Worklife, 1976
Biographical sketch of John L. Lewis, with emphasis on his rise and performance as a great labor leader and organizer of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO). (SH)
Descriptors: American History, Labor Conditions, Labor Legislation, Labor Problems
Kennedy, Donald, Ed.; And Others – 1982
This collection of papers, which is intended as a contribution to the body of knowledge known as labor studies, examines the ways in which labor unions have and are continuing to respond to technological change in the workplace. The introduction by Donald Kennedy, Charles Craypo, and Mary Lehman traces the impact of technological change on the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Conditions, Labor Education
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Rosser, Mike; Mallier, Tony – Employee Relations, 1983
Discusses the rise of unemployment in Britain, the changes in the character of the labor force, the increases in part-time employment, and the implications for those involved in employee relations. Includes information about working conditions, labor legislation, and trade union involvement. (JOW)
Descriptors: Labor Conditions, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations, Part Time Employment
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