Strike for the common good : fighting for the future of public education / Rebecca Kolins Givan and Amy Schrager Lang, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Amy Schrager Lang, Rebecca Kolins Givan -- Introduction: On strike for our students and the common good / Rebecca Kolins Givan -- The long war on public education. Collective action and the common good: Teachers' struggles and the revival of the strike / Joseph A. McCartin, Marilyn Sneiderman -- Battle for or in the classroom: Teachers' strikes in the context of the "epidemic" of school violence and the working environment / Elizabeth Faue -- The critical issues of teacher pay and employment / Sylvia A. Allegretto -- The ripple effect of the 2012 Chicago teachers' strike / Robert Bruno, Steven K. Ashby -- The long history of attacking teachers' unions and public education / Clarence Taylor -- Red states rising. Rank-and-file organizing and digital mobilizing in the red state revolt / Eric Blanc -- Educators united online / Rebecca Garelli -- Owning my labor / Nicole McCormick -- The antiracist struggle in the Kentucky teacher strike / Petia Edison, Ivonne Rovira -- "People are sticking together": School bus drivers take action in the right-to-work south / Marion Payne, Rebecca Kolins Givan -- On strike for the common good. Black Lives Matter at school to social justice union educators: Lessons from Seattle / Jesse Hagopian -- The LA strike: Learning together to build the national movement we need / Cecily Myart-Cruz, Alex Caputo-Pearl -- Reclaim our schools Los Angeles: Whose strike? Our strike! LA's fight to reclaim our schools / Rudy Gonzalves, Edgar Ortiz -- The teachers' strikes of 2018-2019: A gendered rebellion / Gillian Russom -- You can't fire us! Student solidarity on the picket line / Jhoni Palmer, Rebecca Kolins Givan -- What comes next?. The 2018 wave of teacher strikes: A turning point for our schools? / Stan Karp, Adam Sanchez -- Trust, joy, militancy: Lessons from the first charter strikes / Chris Baehrend -- Relearning the supermajority strike / Jane McAlevey -- Silicon Valley, philanthrocapitalism, and policy shifts from teachers to tech / Roxana Marachi, Robert Carpenter -- Global educator movements: Teacher struggles against neoliberalism and for democracy and justice / Lauren Ware Stark, Carol Anne Spreen -- Afterword: The strikes continue.

"Recent teacher walkouts affirm public education as a crucial public benefit and understand the rampant disinvestment in public education not simply as a local issue affecting teacher paychecks but also as a danger to communities and to democracy. In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states--both right-to-work states, like West Virginia, and those with a unionized workforce--followed them over the next year. From Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma to Colorado and California, teachers announced to state legislators that not only their abysmal wages but the deplorable conditions of their work and the increasingly straitened circumstances of public education were unacceptable."-- Provided by publisher.