Lessons in Organising
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Lessons in Organising

What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers

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eBook - ePub

Lessons in Organising

What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers

About this book

A vital work on labour movement strategy by experienced union activists

'An excellent review of the attack on teachers and their unions, by authors well placed to point to ways to improve the fight back and resistance' - Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary NEU

The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organizing in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organizing' in the union movement today.

This turn to collective organizing builds strength at a local as well as a national level, and also aids in mobilizing around a wider range of political issues from campaigning against austerity to taking action for the environment. In recent years, this fusion of workplace organizing and national campaigning has been exemplified by Europe's largest education trade union, the National Education Union (NEU).

In Lessons in Organising, the authors bring together activist, academic and union official perspectives to assess the potential (and the limitations) of the 'turn to organizing' and set out the case for a new transformative trade unionism for the 21st century.

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Information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780745345222
eBook ISBN
9780745345246
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1. Introduction
  8. 2. The Crisis of Organised Labour
  9. 3. Class Wars: Public Education and the War on Teachers
  10. 4. Building Power in the Workplace
  11. 5. Breaking Neoliberal Hegemony in Education
  12. 6. Organising in a Crisis
  13. 7. Lessons in Organising
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index