Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century--and perhaps for the last forty years--and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized testing, among other changes.

In 2012, Chicago teachers built a grassroots movement through education and engagement of an entire union membership, taking militant action in the face of enormous structural barriers and a hostile Democratic Party leadership. The teachers won massive concessions from the city and have become a new model for school reform led by teachers themselves, rather than by billionaires. Strike for America is the story of this movement, and how it has become the defining struggle for the labor movement today.

Author: Micah Uetricht
Publisher: Verso
Published: 03/11/2014
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.85h x 5.17w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9781781683255
ISBN10: 1781683255
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- Education | Leadership
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform

About the Author
Micah Uetricht is an assistant editor at Jacobin, and an In These Times contributing editor. He has written for the Nation, the Chicago Reader, Al Jazeera America, and Dissent. A former labor organizer, he lives in Chicago.