The role of learning and education in trade union efforts to organise young and precarious workers.

Autor/in	Samaluk, Barbara
Titel	The role of learning and education in trade union efforts to organise young and precarious workers.
Quelle	In: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 17 (2026) 1, S. 97-112Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2000-7426
DOI	10.25656/01:35244 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.5859
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-352445
Schlagwörter	Lernen; Extremismus; Prekariat; Interview; Erwachsenenbildung; Gewerkschaftliche Bildungsarbeit; Arbeiterbildung; Gewerkschaft; Slowenien
Abstract	Due to increasing precarisation, trade unions face challenges of organising young and precarious workers. Although research informs of innovative union strategies in this regard, there is a gap in understanding the role of learning and education in trade union efforts to organise young and precarious workers. This paper addresses this gap by drawing on industrial relations and adult education scholarship to examine a case study of innovative strategies of the Trade Union Youth Plus (TUYP) that has since 2011 operated in Slovenia. Findings show that dialogical approaches to education played a crucial role in the establishment and development of TUYP and its innovative proactive fieldwork and communication tactics, which increased unions' dialogical capacity to engage with, organise and unionise young and precarious workers, and ultimately also led to the transfer of knowledge from TUYP to the wider trade union movement. The article shows that dialogical approaches to education are a necessary prerequisite for organising and unionising young and precarious workers and for revitalising trade union organisations. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2026/3