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Teacher Strike!: Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order

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Description for Teacher Strike!: Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order Paperback. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JNAM; KNXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Working Class in American History
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252082368
SKU
V9780252082368
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About Jon Shelton
Jon Shelton is an assistant professor of democracy and justice studies at University of Wisconsin Green Bay.

Reviews for Teacher Strike!: Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order
First Book Award, International Standing Conference for the History of Education, 2018 Herbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-¬Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2014 "Through the vividly drawn case studies described in this smart volume, Jon Shelton shows how the labor conflicts that rocked America's public schools in the tumultuous years between 1968 and 1981 altered the nation's ... Read more

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