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Strike for America - Chicago Teachers Against Austerity (Paperback)
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Strike for America - Chicago Teachers Against Austerity (Paperback)
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Loot Price R434
Discovery Miles 4 340
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The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic
labor struggle so far this century-and perhaps for the last forty
years-and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for
restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools
and tying teacher salaries to standardized testing, among other
changes. The teachers took on the bipartisan, free market school
reform agenda that is currently exacerbating inequality in
education and waging war on teachers' livelihoods. In the age of
austerity, when the public sector is under attack, Chicago teachers
fought back-and won. The strike was years in the making. Chicago
teachers spent a long time building a grassroots movement to
educate and organize the entire union membership. They stood up
against hostile mayors, billionaire-backed reformers out to destroy
unions, and even their own intransigent union leadership, to take
militant action. The Chicago protest has become a model for how
reforms to the school system can be led by teachers and
communities. It offers inspiration for workers looking to create
democratic, fighting unions. Strike for America is the story of
this movement and how it triumphed in the defining struggle for
workers today.
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