'An excellent review of the attack on teachers and their unions, by authors well placed to point to ways to improve the fight back and resistance' - Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary NEU

The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organizing in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organizing' in the union movement today.

This turn to collective organizing builds strength at a local as well as a national level, and also aids in mobilizing around a wider range of political issues from campaigning against austerity to taking action for the environment. In recent years, this fusion of workplace organizing 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 organizing' and set out the case for a new transformative trade unionism for the 21st century.

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Information

Publisher

Pluto Press

Year

2023

ISBN

9780745345246

Edition

Topic

Economics

Subtopic

Labour Economics

Index

Economics

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
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
Notes
References
Index