The Transition Role of the Asian Labor Education Center

Abstract

This paper discusses the transition role of the Asian Labor Education Center (ALEC) from an institution offering workers' education to an academic degree-granting school in industrial relations. Part I is the development and evolution of the workers' education program of the Center. Part II is the emergence allound the second half of the 1960s and into the 1970s, of a plethora of external trade union based, and non-trade union based support for workers' education in the Philippines and in the other developing countries in the region. Part III is the change in the paradigm for development strategy, considered at the global level. These phases although distinct from each other, are not by any means mutually independent of each other. In fact, each has an impact on the others in important and critical ways.