Creating a New Model of a Social Union
Core and the Chicago Teachers Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9198575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Barlett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 12 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-065-02-2013-06_2 |
| OpenAlex | W1980772077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The success of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike in September 2012 was a stunning rebuke to the forces of privatization and corporate education reform.... Three years ago when the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) ran for leadership of the CTU, few would have predicted their ability to turn the union around from six years of do-little leadership into a force capable of taking on a nationally funded, bipartisan "education reform" movement that seemed likely to achieve its goal of weakening and possibly destroying the largest remaining union sector in the United States—public education unions. CORE and the CTU's success was not due to replacing a weak leadership with a militant one willing to strike, but rather to the creation of a layer of union members in the CTU who saw the struggle as one for what CTU president Karen Lewis calls "the soul of public education."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Caucus · Core (optical fiber) · Militant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership · Public Administration · Service-Learning and Community Engagement
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2015 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |