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Journal
Journal of Collective Negotiations
ISSN
2167-7816 (print) 2167-7824 (electronic)
Volume
8
Issue
4
Date
12/1/1979

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Title
QUEBES: EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION?
DOI
10.2190/2H06-ARG7-E3XR-0BW4
Author
WILLIAM LAUROESCH
Online Date
05/09/2002

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QUEBES: EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION?

WILLIAM LAUROESCH

DOI: 10.2190/2H06-ARG7-E3XR-0BW4

Abstract

Conditions forecast for public higher education in the United States already exist in the Canadian province of Quebec, suggesting that the Quebec experience in collective negotiations may in some fashion inform and instruct similar activities stateside. Centralization of educational authority to accomplish the aims of the "quiet revolution," coupled with the growth of confederation of campus unions, led in the early 1970's to an escalating "arms race" between the Canadian Ministry of Education and the syndicalistic unions. The effective exercise of union power was ultimately at the polls rather than the bargaining table. The nature of the alliances formed by college and university professors in Quebec reflects a kind of socialization not yet achieved within the American professorate.

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