Lessons in Organising : What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers

Little, Gawain/ Sharp, Ellie/ Stevenson, Howard

Pluto Press（2023/03発売）

Pluto Press（2023/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780745345222
• DDC分類 331.87

Full Description

'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 organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organising' in the union movement today.

This turn to collective organising builds strength at a local as well as a national level, and also aids in mobilising around a wider range of political issues from campaigning against austerity to taking action for the environment. In recent years, this fusion of workplace organising 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 organising' and set out the case for a new transformative trade unionism for the 21st century.

Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Crisis of Organised Labour

3. Class Wars: Public Education and the War on Teachers

4. Building Power in the Workplace

5. Breaking Neoliberal Hegemony in Education

6. Organising in a Crisis

7. Lessons in Organising

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