Addresses key issues in union education in Britain: widening participation, the role of education, expansion, and accreditation. (SK)

Examined the processes and dynamics involved in the election of the General Secretary to the United Kingdom's Association of University Teachers. Concluded that the election was an exercise in "limited democracy" and "safety first," perpetuating traditionalist over modernizing leadership. (EV)

Explores extent to which devolved management is drawing school-based union representatives into a more prominent role. Argues that while there can be significant differences between individual schools, increased school autonomy is raising the profile of trade union activity in the workplace, and this needs to be better reflected in educational…

Discusses how administrators at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, worked to reconcile politics, economics, and today's consumer-oriented students as it renovated the student union, suggesting that a central issue for those responsible for determining services to be provided by student centers is what can best be outsourced and what can be kept…

Describes how Oregon's Linn-Benton Community College, Lane Community College, Chemeketa Community College, and Portland Community College Cascade recently created areas specifically for their student activities programs. (EV)

Describes impact of teacher contract language on efforts to improve the quality of education at Stuyvesant High School, one of New York City's elite exam schools. (PKP)

Describes how, as adjunct professors flock to unions, they face a choice: Join with full-timers, gaining strength in numbers? Or go their own way, to keep an independent voice? (EV)

Explores why and how integrating the activities of recreation centers and student centers into one common facility is emerging as a new development in college campus design. (EV)

Reviews efforts by academic research institutions to capture and preserve archival records of American labor institutions, focusing on a recent project to assess the state of labor archives efforts and the challenges facing union officials and labor archivists. Describes the Labor Archives Project (LAP), including the research methodology and…

Describes the design of an online exhibit about the history of the United Farm Workers union that was created on the World Wide Web by the Walter P. Reuther Library/Archives of Labor and Urban History. Discusses Web design, hypertext links, and ease of navigation. (Author/LRW)

Great Britain's Transport and General Workers Union, in conjunction with Surrey University, offers its members distance learning in the form of tutorials with monthly course meetings. The program enables members to consider the wider economic and political issues facing unions and to develop independent learning skills. (SK)

Representatives of 86 local unions were surveyed regarding the level of union involvement in and control over programs in their workplaces. Results indicate that there is significant variation among local unions. (Author/JOW)

Some problems that plague negotiators throughout the decade continue into the next and are joined by issues such as the rising cost of health insurance, family care, and health and safety concerns. (Author/JOW)

Traces the role of the Workers' Educational Association since its founding in 1919 and its participation in political activities and in the development of the trade union movement in Finland. (SK)

This study presents econometric estimates of the effects of unionism on productivity in 83 West Virginia coal mines in the early 1920s. Results show that unionism significantly reduced productivity at small mines but not at large mines. The author ascribes this effect to systematic differences between small and large operations in the quality of…