Law, MichaelPiercy, Gemma Louise2009-09-142009-09-142000Law, M & Piercy, G. (2000). Training and the new industrial relations: New Zealand research that explores Streeck's thesis. In T. J. Stork, V.-L. Chapman and R. St. Clair (eds) AERC 2000: 41st Annual Adult Education Research Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2-4, 2000 (pp. 235-240).https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2926This New Zealand research finds some support for Wolfgang Streeck’s thesis that education and training offer unions strategic possibilities in a neo-liberal environment. But it also finds that political strategies are necessary when unions’ quasi-constitutional status has been substantially diminished.application/pdfenThis article has been published in the Proceedings of AERC 2000: 41st Annual Adult Education Research Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2-4, 2000.new industrial relationConference Contribution