Building Power, Breaking Power (eBook)

The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008

Jesse Chanin (Autor)

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2024
336 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7823-8 (ISBN)

Infos

From 1965 to 2005, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) defied the Souths conservative anti-union efforts to become the largest local in Louisiana. Jesse Chanin argues that UTNO accomplished and maintained its strength through strong community support, addressing a Black middle-class political agenda, internal democracy, and drawing on the legacy and tactics of the civil rights movement by combining struggles for racial and economic justice, all under Black leadership and with a majority women and Black membership. However, the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina provided the state government and local charter school advocates with the opportunity to remake the school system and dismantle the union. Authorities fired 7,500 educators, marking the largest dismissal of Black teaching staff since Brown v. Board of Education.Chanin highlights the significant staying power and political, social, and community impact of UTNO, as well as the damaging effects of the charter school movement on educators.

Autor

Jesse Chanin is a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University's Coalition for Compassionate Schools, where she facilitates youth participatory action research.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.4.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 14 halftones, 4 graphs, 8 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: 20th-Century History • Black history in Louisiana • Black-led unions • Black politics • Charter Schools • charter school unions • civil rights movement in Louisiana • decline of organized labor • dignity in the workplace • Disaster Capitalism • Hurricane Katrina • Integration • Iron Law of Oligarchy • labor unions in the South • Louisiana History • neoliberalism in education • New Orleans • Oral History • Participatory Democracy • Privatization in education • Racial Justice • rank and file unionism • state takeovers in education • teachers unions in the South • Union Busting • urban divestment • women in the labor movement
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7823-3 / 1469678233
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7823-8 / 9781469678238