Series 2. Experimental workers' education conferences and programs, 1957-1971.

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National Institute of Labor Education. Series 2. Experimental workers' education conferences and programs, 1957-1971.

Series 2. Experimental workers' education conferences and programs, 1957-1971.

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Materials pertaining to a project on preretirement education which was jointly sponsored by NILE and Purdue University include memoranda and position papers on company preretirement counseling, with documentation on preretirement education for hourly employees, senior citizen housing, and a retirement program for manual workers; the development of a multi-university program for preretirement education; and a report by Leonard Breen (professor of sociology, Purdue University) on patterns for programs on aging. Documents of the Steering Committee for Research Seminar on Comparative Labor Movements include correspondence of Joseph Mire and Committee members; memoranda and reports regarding national labor movements in the postwar world; international labor education in the United States; labor movements in developing countries; and workers' education programs for Latin American union officials. Materials on projects conducted by the Task Force on Urbanization include memoranda, statements and position papers with Anthony Luchek (professor of labor education, University of Wisconsin) regarding urban planning, housing, social welfare, finances, public health, and inter-union communication, and a proposal for education and research on labor and the problems of urbanization. Materials pertaining to programs sponsored by the Task Force on Technological Change include minutes of the Task Force; memoranda, papers and notes regarding education programs on automation and technological change; proposals for a manual for job seekers, and a film dealing with personal problems created by the introduction of automation. Also includes documentation of the residential study institutes for union staff which were held during the summers of 1961-1963 at Cornell University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. Materials include memoranda, letters, and statements regarding finances, publicity and promotion, scholarships, and curricula; course outlines; evaluation reports; questionnaires; and minutes of the planning committee. Additionally, includes materials of various non-residential study institutes for union-sponsored candidates, held at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Connecticut, the Wisconsin School for Workers, the University of Michigan Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Indiana University, Roosevelt University, and the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Documents include research proposals, memoranda, letters, position papers, and statements regarding the curriculum improvement program; the union leadership academy; labor studies programs at various universities; the union leadership development program; the union leader as a decision maker; proposals for long-term experimental programs on workers' education; trade-union leadership; adult education for trade-unionists; non-residential liberal studies program; a literacy improvement project for labor union members; experimental projects in workers' education and public responsibility; and promotion of cooperative education programs between labor and non-labor agencies. Also includes letters, memoranda, clippings, research proposals, financial statements, programs, and agenda concerning projects and conferences on union leadership in public health; cultural use of leisure time; school dropouts and youth employment; involvement of unions and leaders in community affairs; evaluation and development of workers' understanding of and concern for a code of ethics and moral standards in industrial relations; promoting cooperative educational programs between labor and non-labor agencies; development of teaching materials and techniques to promote economic education within labor organizations; human relations education within labor organizations; inter-group relations and racial relations; establishment of a labor studies center; public responsibility in collective bargaining; community action leadership training for low-income unionists in the South; lectureships in industrial relations; promotion of membership participation in labor organizations; occupational health and workers' education; and southern union staff training institutes.

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