Rank-and-file rebels : theories of power and change in the 2018 education strikes /
In spring 2018, a wave of rank-and-file rebellion swept schools across the south and southwest United States, among other places. Educators in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona pushed their trade unions, school boards and school administrations to shut schools down to increase wages, hal...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Fort Collins, Colorado : Boulder :
WAC Clearinghouse ; University Press of Colorado,
[2023].
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| Series: | Precarity & contingency.
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| Summary: | In spring 2018, a wave of rank-and-file rebellion swept schools across the south and southwest United States, among other places. Educators in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona pushed their trade unions, school boards and school administrations to shut schools down to increase wages, halt rising healthcare costs and restore public education funding. Despite stringent anti-union labor laws, rank-and-file educators organized on the periphery and sometimes beyond their reticent state unions to take direct action, contributing to a resurgence in educator uprisings across the United States and the globe. Rank-and-File Rebels explores and historicizes the spring 2018 "red" state strikes, offering insights into the racial, gendered and political contexts of educators' organizing in the lead-up to, during, and soon after the strikes. Through interviews with strike organizers across four states as well as the authors' own experiences in education labor organizing, this book analyzes theories of power and change, approaches to unionism and the significance of solidarity and social justice union approaches in contemporary educator labor movements. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 175 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173). |
| ISBN: | 9781646425006 1646425006 |