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by Jon Shelton

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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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  • Title Teacher Strike!: Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order
  • Author Jon Shelton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 274
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Publication date 2017-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780252082368 / 0252082362
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Education / Teaching
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, Labor movement - United States - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016043301
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.892

About the author

Jon Shelton is an assistant professor of democracy and justice studies at University of Wisconsin Green Bay.

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