Labour education refers to a different kind of schooling for union members. This is all about learning about the issues in the workplace and beyond. This education helps to know how to handle grievances as well as how to negotiate contracts while ensuring health and safety on the job with exercising labour and human rights. Such an education is helpful to understand politics and economy of the country. According to Schmidt (2007) that labour education is critical to an informed and effective union movement. Basically, this is an effort from the international community to eliminate child labour. As opined by Spencer (2002) that education refers to the key element to prevent child labour. The concept of child …show more content…
This is the key element to prevent child labour. Education is the only means to combat child labour while being a part of its work to develop vocational and skills training as well as promoting the status of teachers while upholding their individual rights. Governments of all nations need to accelerate efforts to achieve Education For All while eliminating child labour at the same time. One of the integral parts of the education policy is to prevent and eliminate child labour. As far as Spencer (2002) is concerned there is no doubt that the education sector has great potential to contribute in the elimination process of child labour. This is the reason why labour education focuses more on the prevention and elimination of child labour being an integral part of education policy development and reform worldwide. As defined by Schmidt (2007) that labour education refers to all union and independently provided education, which are designed to strengthen union representation, activity and culture. This is nothing related to workplace learning aimed at making workers more efficient and compliant human …show more content…
According to Spencer (2002) skills and economic inequality are interlinked due to the increase in wage dispersion in recent years. Due to the excess demand for skills in various countries, class formation plays an important role in terms of labour education. Undoubtedly, the structure of skills refers to a key determinant of labour market institutions shaping the social stratification of economic rewards. This leads to the firm connection of fundamental dimensions of social inequality like class, gender, industry and contract. Here comes the relation between the class formation and labour