Title Teacher strike! : public education and the making of a new American political order / Jon Shelton

Edition Second edition Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series The working class in American history Working class in American history. Summary "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. 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"-- Provided by publisher "This project explores the teacher strikes of the late 1960s and 1970s, arguing that the strikes reflect the tensions of a liberal vision that could no longer afford to sustain the promise of economic opportunity. The manner in which the state provides education to its citizens has been a major political battleground for much of American history given that education is a fundamental facet of everyday life as well as the single-most expensive expenditure of local governments. Teacher strikes, therefore, directly affect the public in ways that no other workers strike could. Using media sources such as television news, print reportage, editorials and letters to the editor, and school board meetings, Shelton puts close examinations of strikes in Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and St. Louis in dialogue with the national trajectory of neoliberal conservatism in this period, demonstrating how the strikes and the discourses they provoked contributed to the growing public perception that unions were at best irrelevant and at worst detrimental to American prosperity. He also examines the ways that foes of the labor movement increasingly tapped into cultural and economic anxieties of that tumultuous decade to undermine teacher unionism, in particular, and liberal and pro-union policies, more generally"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Strikes and lockouts -- Teachers -- United States -- History -- 20th century Teachers' unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century Public schools -- United States -- History -- 20th century Collective bargaining -- Teachers -- United States Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1900 - 1999. EDUCATION -- History. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. Collective bargaining -- Teachers Labor movement Politics and government Public schools Strikes and lockouts -- Teachers Teachers' unions SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017000896 ISBN 9780252099373 0252099370

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