What kind of knowledge do you need the most in order to make a decent living and avoid getting injured or beaten up by your job?

It’s not those hard skills that take years of costly training, or the work-ethic skills that workforce development planners promote. It’s labor education. Narrowly defined, it means how to organize a union, plus all the ancillary leadership, mobilizing, negotiation, education, and enforcement responsibilities that come with that. Much of this is quite technical. It’s also philosophy. Broadly defined, it’s essentially the arts and sciences from a working-class perspective.

The narrow definition of what people learn in labor education classes reflects the reality that our labor relations system is unusually complex.

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