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Book SynopsisIn 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-d
Trade Review
The fullest account of the strike itself.... Notable for its wealth of detail, and a strong historical and political analysis, it combines the useful aspects of an academic tract - with an index, extensive footnotes, etc. - with vivid writing, engrossing warmth for the subject, and skillful portraits that make both leaders and rank and filers come alive.
* Against the Current *
