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- Title
"It Felt Like Community": Social Movement Unionism and the Chicago Teachers Union Strike of 2012.
- Authors
Alter, Tom
- Abstract
The article discusses the September 2012 Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike in Chicago, Illinois, noting that the strike was similar to the social movement approach of the 1930s. Topics include the corporation-backed school privatization plan Renaissance 2010 in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the formation of the union organization Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE), and the anti-union work of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
- Subjects
ILLINOIS; UNITED States; CHICAGO Public Schools; TEACHERS' strikes &; lockouts; TEACHERS' unions; SCHOOL privatization; EMANUEL, Rahm, 1959-; SOCIAL movements
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2013, Vol 10, Issue 3, p11
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-2149461