Colleagues in the WEI at Manchester University and at Limerick and Leeds Universities have developed an updated version of the Future Learn fee online course Power. Politics and Influence at Work.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/work-power-politics-influence
This has had more than 2.000 practitioners engage with the course and has been a key part of the WEI’s work with a range of local communities and groups.
It is also a resource that can be used with students and practitioner as well as it is free to access.
The course is tied to a short introductory book to work and employment: Power, Politics and Influence at Work
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146410/power-politics-and-influence-at-work/
The updated Future Learn course has new materials on transnational collective agreements, new forms of independent unions, the nature of the platform economy, health and safety politics at work, the challenges of developing social responsibility, and equality in the cultural sector. If you wish to have further details please contact Tony Dundon – Tony.Dundon@ul.ie – or – Miguel Martinez Lucio – miguel.martinezlucio@manchester.ac.uk