A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike

by Robert Bruno and Steven K. Ashby

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501704915
• ISBN13: 9781501704918
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher