Red State Revolt (eBook)

The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics

Eric Blanc (Autor)

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2019 | Ebook UK & RoW
224 Seiten
Verso US (Verlag)
978-1-78873-575-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "e;the white working class,"e; a strike wave-the first in over four decades-rocked the United States. Inspired by the wildcat victory in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and across the country walked off their jobs and shut down their schools to demand better pay for educators, more funding for students, and an end to years of austerity.Confounding all expectations, these working-class rebellions erupted in regions with Republican electorates, weak unions, and bans on public sector strikes. By mobilizing to take their destinies into their own hands, red state school workers posed a clear alternative to politics-as-usual. And with similar actions now gaining steam in Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, and Virginia, there is no sign that this upsurge will be short-lived. Red State Revolt is a compelling analysis of the emergence and development of this historic strike wave, with an eye to extracting its main strategic lessons for educators, labor organizers, and radicals across the country. A former high school teacher and longtime activist, Eric Blanc embedded himself into the rank-and-file leaderships of the walkouts, where he was given access to internal organizing meetings and secret Facebook groups inaccessible to most journalists. The result is one of the richest portraits of the labor movement to date, a story populated with the voices of school workers who are winning the fight for the soul of public education-and redrawing the political map of the country at large.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Jacobin
• Reihe/Serie: Jacobin
• Reihe/Serie: Jacobin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: AFL-CIO • A History of White People • alfie kohn • Bernie Sanders • Bhaskar Sunkara • Charter Schools • Chicago Teachers Union • Democratic Socialism • Democratic Socialists of America • Diane Ravitch • DSA • Hillbilly Elegy • Jacobin Magazine • K12 education • Labor history • labor notes • Labor Strikes • More Than A Score • Neoliberalism • Public schools • radical labor • radical labor history • radical unionism • Reign of Error • school strikes • Socialism • socialist politics • socialist workers • Standardized testing • Stranger in their own Land • Teachers • Teacher strikes • Teacher unions • Teamsters for a Democratic Union • Trade unions • Trump Country • waiting for superman • what's the matter with kansas • white working class • workers movement • working-class history • working class politics
• ISBN-10: 1-78873-575-7 / 1788735757
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-575-9 / 9781788735759