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1 online resource (ix, 309 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
In reaction to the changes imposed on public schools across the country in the name of "education reform," the Chicago Teachers Union redefined its traditional role and waged a multidimensional fight that produced a community-wide school strike and transformed the scope of collective bargaining into arenas that few labor relations experts thought possible. Using interviews, first-person accounts, participant observation, union documents, and media reports, Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno tell the story of the 2012 strike that shut down the Chicago school system for seven days. A Fight for the Soul of Public Education takes into account two overlapping, parallel, and equally important stories. One is a grassroots story of worker activism told from the perspective of rank-and-file union members and their community supporters. Ashby and Bruno provide a detailed account of how the strike became an international cause when other teachers unions had largely surrendered to corporate-driven education reform. The second story describes the role of state and national politics in imposing educational governance changes on public schools and draconian limitations on union bargaining rights. It includes a detailed account of the actual bargaining process revealing the mundane and the transcendental strategies of both school board and union representatives. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Education reform from Washington to Chicago -- The era of mayoral control begins -- Chicago school teachers and core -- Evaluating teachers and political opportunism -- Senate Bill 7 -- The contract campaign -- Emanuel provokes, teachers prepare to bargain -- The start of 2012 contract negotiations -- A breakthrough and prelude to a strike -- The strike -- Bargaining during the strike and a deal reached. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Strikes and lockouts -- Teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Strikes and lockouts -- Teachers. |
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
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Education and state -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Education and state. |
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Teachers -- Political activity -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Teachers -- Political activity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bruno, Robert, 1955- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ashby, Steven K. Fight for the soul of public education. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016 9781501704918 (DLC) 2016030324 (OCoLC)951760578 |
| ISBN |
9781501705939 (electronic book) |
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1501705938 (electronic book) |
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9781501704918 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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1501704915 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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9781501706486 (ret) |
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1501706489 (ret) |
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