Strike for the Common Good: Fighting for the Future of Public Education - Couverture rigide

 
9780472074723: Strike for the Common Good: Fighting for the Future of Public Education
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ISBN 10 : 0472074725 ISBN 13 : 9780472074723
Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2020

Synopsis

In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states—both right-to-work states, like West Virginia, and those with a unionized workforce—followed them over the next year. From Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma to Colorado and California, teachers announced to state legislators that not only their abysmal wages but the deplorable conditions of their work and the increasingly straitened circumstances of public education were unacceptable. These recent teacher walkouts affirm public education as a crucial public benefit and understand the rampant disinvestment in public education not simply as a local issue affecting teacher paychecks but also as a danger to communities and to democracy. Strike for the Common Good gathers together original essays, written by teachers involved in strikes nationwide, by students and parents who have supported them, by journalists who have covered these strikes in depth, and by outside analysts (academic and otherwise). Together, the essays consider the place of these strikes in the broader landscape of recent labor organizing and battles over public education, and attend to the largely female workforce and, often, largely non-white student population of America’s schools.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rebecca Kolins Givan is Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University.

Amy Schrager Lang is Professor Emerita, Syracuse University.

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Éditeur
The University of Michigan Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0472074725
ISBN 13 
9780472074723
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
286
Éditeur
Givan Dr. Rebecca Kolins, Lang Amy Schrager
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0472054724 ISBN 13 :  9780472054725
Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2020
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