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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chanin, Jesse (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]
Subjects:	United Teachers of New Orleans > History. United Teachers of New Orleans 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. Mouvement ouvrier > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire. Enseignants noirs américains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire. Écoles à charte > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire. 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. African American teachers Charter schools Labor movement Teachers' unions Louisiana > New Orleans
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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.