Bruce Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Athabasca University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1093-4870 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding the temporal evolution of Covid-19 research through machine learning and natural language processing
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been continuously affecting human lives and communities around the world in many ways, from cities under lockdown to new social experiences. Although in most cases COVID-19 results in mild illness, it has drawn global attention due to the extremely contagious nature of SARS-CoV-2. Governments and healthcare…
Unions and Learning in a Global Economy
The Lancashire Giant
Old and New Social Movements As Learning Sites
The discussion about the importance of new social movements as learning sites has focused on the understanding of their role as facilitators and providers of informal learning and education. Within Adult Education Quarterly Welton has contested Finger's emphasis on new social learning movements as "strategies of individual survival" by arguing they are concerned with collective goals and social purpose. However, even Welton has ignored the learni…
Labour Education in Canada
ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY is an open, distance university located in Athabasca, Alberta. Its mandate is to break down barriers that traditionally restrict access to university-level education. This mandate is interpreted broadly to include constraints of time, space, educational background, and social position. In the latter case, the university offers innovative programmes in the areas of women's studies, native studies, and labour studies. Athabasca…
Industrial Studies for Trade Unionists
Trade Unionism, Workplace, and Politics in Post-War Britain
ISSUES OF SOCIAL are probably more important in Britain than in any other comparable society. The experience of class is sharpest at the workplace, where labour interests are usually represented by trade unions. Why then has trade unionism appeared to be so important in die post-war period, yet also largely ineffectual, in terms of creating fundamental changes in die economic and political position of labour? The growth of shop steward organizati…
University Adult Education in Crisis
University Adult Education in Crisis
Trade Unionism, Workplace, and Politics in Post-War Britain
ISSUES OF SOCIAL are probably more important in Britain than in any other comparable society. The experience of class is sharpest at the workplace, where labour interests are usually represented by trade unions. Why then has trade unionism appeared to be so important in die post-war period, yet also largely ineffectual, in terms of creating fundamental changes in die economic and political position of labour? The growth of shop steward organizati…
Industrial Studies for Trade Unionists
Labour Education in Canada
ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY is an open, distance university located in Athabasca, Alberta. Its mandate is to break down barriers that traditionally restrict access to university-level education. This mandate is interpreted broadly to include constraints of time, space, educational background, and social position. In the latter case, the university offers innovative programmes in the areas of women's studies, native studies, and labour studies. Athabasca…
Old and New Social Movements As Learning Sites
The discussion about the importance of new social movements as learning sites has focused on the understanding of their role as facilitators and providers of informal learning and education. Within Adult Education Quarterly Welton has contested Finger's emphasis on new social learning movements as "strategies of individual survival" by arguing they are concerned with collective goals and social purpose. However, even Welton has ignored the learni…
The Lancashire Giant
Unions and Learning in a Global Economy
Understanding the temporal evolution of Covid-19 research through machine learning and natural language processing
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been continuously affecting human lives and communities around the world in many ways, from cities under lockdown to new social experiences. Although in most cases COVID-19 results in mild illness, it has drawn global attention due to the extremely contagious nature of SARS-CoV-2. Governments and healthcare…
Political science (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Adult and Continuing Education Topics (1 works)