{"title":"A Case Study of Threats Against a University-Based Labor Education Program: A Personal Remembrance","authors":"Bruce Nissen","doi":"10.1177/0160449x231187115","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"University- and college-based labor education programs historically have had a precarious existence. In the early and mid-twentieth century, suspicion by American Federation of Labor leaders and indifference from higher education institutions were the main threats to health and stability. By the 1980s, these dangers lessened considerably, but new menaces emerged. This article relates a personal history wherein the author experienced a series of assaults on his university-based labor education program with the author frequently being at the center of the controversy. The case is analyzed in the context of corporatization of the university and political and labor-related trends.","PeriodicalId":35267,"journal":{"name":"Labor Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Labor Studies Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449x231187115","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
University- and college-based labor education programs historically have had a precarious existence. In the early and mid-twentieth century, suspicion by American Federation of Labor leaders and indifference from higher education institutions were the main threats to health and stability. By the 1980s, these dangers lessened considerably, but new menaces emerged. This article relates a personal history wherein the author experienced a series of assaults on his university-based labor education program with the author frequently being at the center of the controversy. The case is analyzed in the context of corporatization of the university and political and labor-related trends.
期刊介绍:
The Labor Studies Journal is the official journal of the United Association for Labor Education and is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing research on work, workers, labor organizations, and labor studies and worker education in the US and internationally. The Journal is interested in manuscripts using a diversity of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, directed at a general audience including union, university, and community based labor educators, labor activists and scholars from across the social sciences and humanities. As a multi-disciplinary journal, manuscripts should be directed at a general audience, and care should be taken to make methods, especially highly quantitative ones, accessible to a general reader.