Renewing Workers’ Education

Linda Cooper is Associate Professor ofAdult Education at the University of Cape Town. She has a long history of involvement in trade union education and other adult education initiatives that seek to promote radical, social transformation. Recent publications include RPL as Specialised Pedagogy and Past and Present Intersections: Legacies of Popular Education in the 1970s and 1980s. Sheri Hamilton is a workers' education activist and lecturer in the Department of Education and Curriculum Studies, University of Johannesburg. Her recent academic publications include A Pedagogy of Struggle: #Outsourcingmustfall and Forging Solidarity: Popular Education at Work.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
Part 1: Learning from history to understand the present and envision the future
Chapter 1: Union education as ‘structuring a process of appropriation by workers of their own history’ Dinga Sikwebu
Chapter 2: Organising, mass mobilisation and worker education: Experiences with political worker education in South Africa and Namibia Kessie Moodley and Herbert Jauch
Chapter 3: For our children tomorrow: Workers making, learning and teaching about history Jonathan Grossman
Part 2: Institutionalising workers’ education: Democratising or domesticating?
Chapter 4: The formalisation and institutionalisation of workers’ education in South Africa: Prospects, questions and anxieties Mphutlane wa Bofelo
Chapter 5: Is there still space for women’s only programmes? Grischelda Hartman
Chapter 6: Ploughing back workers’ education: A critical review of an education programme for trade union women Vanessa Pillay
Chapter 7: The Nigerian Labour Congress: Towards systematised trade union education for social transformation in Nigeria Baba Aye and Valentine Udeh
Part 3: Educating workers on the local and global periphery
Chapter 8: Workers’ education and informal workers Chris Bonner
Chapter 9: Learning and leadership in organising temporary agency workers in Canada Aziz Choudry, Mostafa Henaway and Eric Shragge
Chapter 10: Workers’ education in the context of precariousness: Thinking outside of the union box Mondli Hlatshwayo
Chapter 11: Plays as education: Producing useful knowledge for / with precarious workers Astrid von Kotze
Part 4: Rethinking workers’ education: A conceptual toolbox
Chapter 12: Rebuilding workers’ education on Marxist foundations: Reclaiming ideas of working-class struggle and socialism Sheri Hamilton
Chapter 13: Anarcho-syndicalism and union education in South Africa: A critical evaluation of the tradition of the Congress of South African Trade Unions Mandy Moussouris and Lucien van der Walt
Chapter 14: Workers’ education and working-class hegemony: Distilling lessons from the past in order to rebuild the future Linda Cooper
List of contributors
Index