Publications

Casanova, F. Coord.
Youth, labour and trade unions. Tools for the coordinator

Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO; ILO ACTRAV; Spain.
Ministry of Labour and Social Affaires, 2005. 95 p.

ISBN 92-9088-200-X
Includes bibliography

(Full text available only in Spanish pdf format)

 

This material intends to encourage the active participation of young people in the analysis and search of solutions to one of their main and often most anguishing problems: work. This time it is not a search of individual solutions - which are also necessary, but insufficient -, but rather a collective struggle for decent work.

The proposed methodology is primarily an invitation to recover and make experiences and knowledge explicit and getting to know those of other young people. Then, the aim is to set up a critical debate about them, with the participation of the adults of the academy and the trade union world. The purpose is to learn from oneself but also to rethink and question oneself and others.

Each module suggests a possible starting point and a horizon to reflect upon. From the idea that "youth" is the result of understanding the multiple youth worlds. From the idea of "labour" to the idea of a complex and changing labour world. From universal or focused public policies to integral policies linked to collective projects. From traditional trade unionism linked to formal employment to trade unionism that can cover or relate to the complex labour world and the diverse youth worlds.

The last module focuses on the making of individual and collective action proposals for the environment of each participant and for the trade union and youth organisations they integrate. That is way the course-workshop does not finish with the last module: there will have to be a follow-up of these proposals and support participants to overcome their difficulties, which they will most likely find.

Therefore, this tool box wishes to help trade unions, youth organisations and research and training centres that work with them to organize collective learning events to promote transforming action. That is why it is also an open, flexible and no doubt improvable proposal. We count on you to send us your evaluations on the use of this tool box, stating its weaknesses or errors and telling us about the changes and improvements you have made, in order for us to share them with others and therefore learn from each other.

So when we are faced with the question "where are young people?" there is no single or previously given answer. What we rather offer are tools to look for those answers and build them together with young people. It is up to them to say where they are and where they want to go.

 

CONTENTS

1. To start
Credits
Where are young people?
Use strategies
Recommendations
General picture

2. Modules
Module 1: Youth and labour
Planning the First Day
Planning the Second Day
Module 1 Kit: tools for the workshop
Field box: tools for field work
Module's route outline

Module 2: Public youth training and employment policies
Trade unions and youth associations
Planning the First Day
Planning the Second Day
Module 2 Kit: tools for the workshop
Field box: tools for field work
Module's route outline

Module 3: Proposals, commitments and lines of action
Planning the First Day
Planning the Second Day
Module 3 Kit: tools for the workshop
Field box: tools for the follow-up of commitments and lines of action
Module's route outline

3. Multi-purpose tools
Call: guidelines for their creation
Information: suggestions for the search, selection and preparation
The interview
Field observation
Discussion group
Module register: suggestions for its creation
Final report: suggestions for its creation
After-lunch kit: tools suggested for after lunch
Party kit: tools suggested for the evening

4. Bibliography

 

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