Strike for the Common Good

Rebecca Kolins Givan is Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University.Amy Schrager Lang is Professor Emerita, Syracuse University.

• IntroductionOn Strike for Our Students and the Common Good Rebecca Kolins GivanThe Long War on Public Education1. Collective Action and the Common Good: Teachers’ Struggles and the Revival of the StrikeJoseph A. McCartin and Marilyn Sneiderman2. Battle for or in the Classroom: Teachers’ Strikes in the Context of the “Epidemic” of School Violence and the Working EnvironmentElizabeth Faue3. The Critical Issues of Teacher Pay and EmploymentSylvia A. Allegretto4. The Ripple Effect of the 2012 Chicago Teachers’ StrikeRobert Bruno and Steven K. Ashby5. The Long History of Attacking Teachers’ Unions and Public EducationClarence TaylorRed States Rising6. Rank-and-File Organizing and Digital Mobilizing in the Red State RevoltEric Blanc7. Educators United OnlineRebecca Garelli8. Owning My LaborNicole McCormick9. The Antiracist Struggle in the Kentucky Teacher StrikePetia Edison and Ivonne Rovira10. “People Are Sticking Together”: School Bus Drivers Take Action in the Right-to-Work SouthMarion Payne and Rebecca Kolins GivanOn Strike for the Common Good11. Black Lives Matter at School to Social Justice Union Educators: Lessons from SeattleJesse Hagopian12. The LA Strike: Learning Together to Build the National Movement We NeedCecily Myart-Cruz and Alex Caputo-Pearl13. Reclaim Our Schools Los Angeles: Whose Strike? Our Strike! LA’s Fight to Reclaim Our SchoolsRudy Gonzalves and Edgar Ortiz14. The Teachers’ Strikes of 2018–2019: A Gendered RebellionGillian Russom15. You Can’t Fire Us! Student Solidarity on the Picket LineJhoni Palmer and Rebecca Kolins GivanWhat Comes Next?16. The 2018 Wave of Teacher Strikes: A Turning Point for Our Schools?Stan Karp and Adam Sanchez17. Trust, Joy, Militancy: Lessons from the First Charter StrikesChris Baehrend18. Relearning the Supermajority StrikeJane McAlevey19. Silicon Valley, Philanthro-Capitalism, and Policy Shifts from Teachers to TechRoxana Marachi and Robert Carpenter20. Global Educator Movements: Teacher Struggles against Neoliberalism and for Democracy and JusticeLauren Ware Stark and Carol Anne SpreenAfterword: The Strikes Continue . . .Rebecca Kolins Givan

Strike for the Common Good is an engaging and incisive examination of the wave of educator strikes in 201819 that will be remembered as a defining moment of activism a moment when educators, parents, and communities came together to reject the war on public education and serve up a new narrative about the promise of public schools and teachers as pillars of democracy, communities, and racial and economic justice. The volume is packed with the insights of academics examining where our movement came from, and the passion of activists shaping where it is going.