Building power, breaking power : the United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008 /

From 1965 to 2005, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) defied the South's conservative anti-union efforts to become the largest local in Louisiana. Jesse Chanin argues that UTNO accomplished and maintained its strength through strong community support, addressing a Black middle-class poli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chanin, Jesse (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2024].
Subjects:	United Teachers of New Orleans > History. Teachers' unions > Louisiana > New Orleans > History. Labor movement > Louisiana > New Orleans > History. African American teachers > Louisiana > New Orleans > History. Charter schools > Louisiana > New Orleans > History. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Union Is People
The Collective Bargaining Campaign, 1965-1974
Educating Our Own People: Union Democracy and Leadership Development, 1975-1982
There's Nothing Wrong with Acting like a Miner: Disruption and Political Organizing amid the Rise of Neoliberal Policymaking, 1976-1998
Union Bureaucracy, State Takeover, and the Bid to Dismantle a District, 1999-2005
Color-Blind Neoliberalism: Hurricane Katrina, Mass Dismissals, and the Privatization Agenda, 2005-2008
Conclusion: Choice versus Democracy in the Charter School City
Epilogue: Fifty Years of UTNO.