Teacher Strike! : Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order Paperback / softback
by Jon Shelton
Part of the Working Class in American History series
Paperback / softback
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A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities.
Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor coalition and opened the door to the neoliberal challenge at the heart of urban education today.
As Shelton shows, many working- and middle-class whites sided with corporate interests in seeing themselves as society's only legitimate, productive members.
This alliance increasingly argued that public employees and the urban poor took but did not give.
Drawing on a wealth of research ranging from school board meetings to TV news reports, Shelton puts readers in the middle of fraught, intense strikes in Newark, St.
Louis, and three other cities where these debates and shifting attitudes played out.
He also demonstrates how the labor actions contributed to the growing public perception of unions as irrelevant or even detrimental to American prosperity.
Foes of the labor movement, meanwhile, tapped into cultural and economic fears to undermine not just teacher unionism but the whole of liberalism.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:274 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2017
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- ISBN:9780252082368
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:274 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252082368
