Lessons in Organising
What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-7453-4523-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Library binding
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7453-4523-9 (9780745345239)
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Persons
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 chair 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).
Ellie Sharp is a primary school teacher, NEU activist and chair 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).
Content
1. Introduction: Is there a new unionism?
2. Building power: A framework for a transformative trade unionism
3. Class wars: Public education under attack
4. Organising to build power at the workplace: Educators fight back
5. Organising plus: Turning the union outwards
6. Beyond organising: Building a new public education system
7. Conclusion: Building the unions that workers need
2. Building power: A framework for a transformative trade unionism
3. Class wars: Public education under attack
4. Organising to build power at the workplace: Educators fight back
5. Organising plus: Turning the union outwards
6. Beyond organising: Building a new public education system
7. Conclusion: Building the unions that workers need