Lessons in Organising - Gawain Little, Ellie Sharp, Howard Stevenson, David Wilson

Lessons in Organising

What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers
Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2023
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4522-2 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
A vital work on labour movement strategy by experienced union activists
'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.

Gawain Little is a member of the National Executive of the NEU and chairs its International Solidarity Committee. He is the editor of Education for Tomorrow. Ellie Sharp is a primary school teacher, NEU activist and past chairperson of the London NEU New & Young Educators Network. Howard Stevenson is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Nottingham. David Wilson is Assistant General Secretary (Campaigns and Communications) at the National Education Union (NEU), and previously was Head of Organising in the National Union of Teachers (NUT). He tweets at @DavidWilson1975.

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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Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Arbeits- / Sozialrecht Arbeitsrecht
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-7453-4522-0 / 0745345220
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-4522-2 / 9780745345222
Zustand Neuware
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