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Teacher Strike! - Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order (Hardcover)
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Teacher Strike! - Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order (Hardcover)
Series: Working Class in American History
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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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