Gawain Little, Ellie Sharp, Howard Stevenson

Lessons in Organising

What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 208g
• ISBN-13: 9780745345222
• ISBN-10: 0745345220
• Artikelnr.: 66131772

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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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