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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-dTrade ReviewThe 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 *

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Book SynopsisThe medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were influenced by those transactions, or about the complex networks of individuals whose actions allowed raw materials to be extracted, hewn into objects, stored and ultimately shipped for market. Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edge techniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives of these much overlooked ordinary people, painting of a number of detailed portraits to explore the worlds of actors involved in the lives of everyday products - objects of bone, leather, stone, ceramics, and base metal - and their production and use in medieval northern Europe. In so doing, this book seeks to draw attention away from the emergent trend to return to systems and global models, and restore to centre stage what should be the archaeologist’s most important concern: the people of the past.Table of ContentsList of contributors Preface 1. Everyday products in the Middle Ages. Crafts, consumption and the individual in northern Europe c. AD 800–1600: an introduction Gitte Hansen, Steven P. Ashby and Irene Baug 2. ‘With staff in hand, and dog at heel’? What did it mean to be an ‘itinerant’ artisan? Steven P. Ashby 3. Itinerant craftspeople in 12th century Bergen, Norway – aspects of their social identities Gitte Hansen 4. Urban craftspeople at Viking-age Kaupang Unn Pedersen 5. Crafts in the landscape of the powerless. A combmaker’s workshop at Viborg Søndersø AD 1020–1024 Jette Linaa 6. Bone-workers in medieval Viljandi, Estonia. Comparison of finds from downtown and the Order’s castle Heidi Luik 7. Consumers and artisans. Marketing amber and jet in the early medieval British Isles Carolyn Coulter 8. The home-made shoe, a glimpse of a hidden, but most ‘affordable’, craft Quita Mould 9. Fashion and necessity. Anglo-Norman leatherworkers and changing markets Quita Mould and Esther Cameron iv Contents 10. Tracing the nameless actors. Leatherworking and production of leather artefacts in the town of Turku and Turku Castle, SW Finland Janne Harjula 11. Ambiguous stripes – a sign for fashionable wear in medieval Tartu Riina Rammo 12. Silk finds from Oseberg. Production and distribution of high status markers across ethnic boundaries Marianne Vedeler 13. The soapstone vessel production and trade of Agder and its actors Torbjørn P. Schou 14. Actors in quarrying. Production and distribution of quernstones and bakestones during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages Irene Baug 15. The role of Laach Abbey in the medieval quarrying and stone trade Meinrad Pohl 16. Iron producers in Hedmark in the medieval period – who were they? Bernt Rundberget 17. What did the blacksmiths do in Swedish towns? Some new results Hans Andersson 18. The Iron Age blacksmith, simply a craftsman? Roger Jørgensen 19. Bohemian glass in the north. Producers, distributors and consumers of late medieval vessel glass Georg Haggrén 20. If sherds could tell. Imported ceramics from the Hanseatic hinterland in Bergen, Norway. Producers, traders and consumers: who were they, and how were they connected? Volker Demuth 21. Marine trade and transport-related crafts, and their actors – people without archaeology? Natascha Mehler

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