A Century of Teacher Organizing: What Can We Learn?
The history of teacher unionism is rich and vibrant, filled with numerous triumphs, tensions, and setbacks. For over a century, most education employees.
Articles
Labor History
Teaching Blog
International Conference
Labor History
Registration open for the Australia-US Comparative Labour History Conference
Historians and other scholars have long recognized both similarities and differences in the labour experience in Australia and the United States. Both countries.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 7, 2014
OpEd
Teaching Blog
John McNay, “Attack on public school teachers seems like sour grapes”
In the United States, right-wing politicians have diligently worked to defund public education. Republicans have often done this in two major ways. They.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- September 10, 2014
Labor History
Teaching Blog
Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality
Author Colin Gordon’s book, Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality is an online textbook that uses historical and economic analysis to.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- June 6, 2014
Teaching Blog
The Courts vs. Teacher Unionism
Teachers unions have faced some of the most challenging legal strictures in U.S. history. Before public collective bargaining employment laws, teachers effectively were.
- by Justin Law
- May 23, 2014
Teaching Blog
Call for Professors to Boycott Teach for America
Should Labor Historians Encourage A Boycott of Teach for America? Please comment. In the last few years, Teach for America has gone out.
- by Mark Naison
- May 20, 2014
Global Affairs Articles
Labor History
Barry York, “From the Oral History collection: Issy Wyner”
Issy Wyner was born at Paddington, Sydney, in 1916 and grew up in the Rozelle-Balmain area. The interview with him was recorded for.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 18, 2014
Teaching Blog
Peter Rachleff, “The present, past, and future of collective bargaining”
Recent experiences suggest that the generations-old practice of collective bargaining as the normal, if not dominant, method of negotiating the terms of unionized.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- March 24, 2014
Teaching Blog
Bringing Humanity to Progressive Era Tragedies: Teaching Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Uprising
Margaret Peterson Haddix’s historical novel Uprising provides a valuable resource for those of us interested in engaging our students in their real-life drama.
- by Randi Storch
- March 21, 2014
Teaching Blog
Connecting teachers struggles to the public good
The Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) recent decision to boycott Illinois Standards Achievement Tests, its efforts to fight privatization of education and school closures,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- March 7, 2014