Mandate Youth to host Social and Political Economy training course

Thursday 3 February 2022

Mandate Trade Union’s Youth Committee is to host a two-day Social and Political Economy training event on Monday 21^st February and Tuesday 22^nd February in Mandate’s Organising & Training Centre in Dublin.

The course is available to members under the age of 35 but spaces are limited. Anyone wishing to attend should email ablake@mandate.ie as soon as possible.

The course will be delivered by Trademark Belfast and will cover the following topics:

Historical Capitalism

• The Great Transformation and the Age of Capital
• Fordism, Taylorism and Consumer Capitalism
• Keynesianism, the New Deal and the Welfare Compromise

The Global Financial Crisis

• Classical Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism
• The emergence of Finance Capital
• The Great Recession and GFC 2008

Alternative economics and alternative economies

• Green Industrial Revolution and the Just Transition
• Democratising the economy

Trade Union Organizing

• What is a trade union and what does it do?
• Recruitment and organizing – Building a strong and active union
• What is union power and how do we build it?
• Building union campaigns – past and present