 Workers’ education under conditions of precariousness: Re-imagining workers’ educationMondli Hlatshwayo The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2020, vol. 31, issue 1, 96-113 Abstract: The increase in precarious forms of work has been extensively investigated by scholars. However, the implications of precarity for workers’ education have not been adequately explored. There is a great need for an approach to workers’ education that will advance the social and economic interests of precarious workers and other marginalised communities who are becoming a major segment of the workforce. Based on in-depth interviews, this article identifies education regarding wages, women and work, working conditions, labour laws and practical skills like public speaking, reading and writing as core elements of a curriculum for the education of precarious workers. Given that precarious workers tend not to be organised in formal structures, non-governmental organisations and trade unions will have to reach out to them to make sure that they provide alternative structures able to craft educational programmes that can build the confidence of precarious workers so that they can challenge their precariousness. JEL Codes: I29, J46, J51, J61, J83 Keywords: Non-governmental organisations; precarious workers; trade unions; workers’ education (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:31:y:2020:i:1:p:96-113 Access Statistics for this article More articles in The Economic and Labour Relations Review |
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