Rebecca Garelli, an Oral History

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Oral History

When Teachers Mobilize Oral Histories

DateOctober 22, 2021LocationArizonaInterviewerMarcella Loprinzi HardinOral HistoryOral History CollectionProjectWhen Teachers MobilizeSub ProjectWhen Teachers Mobilize Oral HistoriesDownload VideoMP4Download TranscriptDocxShare

The members of United Teachers Los Angeles believe that neighborhood public schools should serve as the essential anchors of our communities. As educators we see first-hand what students need in our classrooms, our school, our clinics, and our neighborhoods, and we deal with the issues that too often prevent those needs from being met.

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St. Paul 2020 Strike Photos, Set 2, Erica Schatzlein Collection

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View: In March of 1970, Postal Workers Suddenly Walked Off the Job. Even President Nixon Was Surprised.

In March of 1970, Postal Workers Suddenly Walked Off the Job. Even President Nixon Was Surprised.

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“Wildcat” strikes, like the one that teachers used effectively in West Virginia in February/March of this year, are when union members walk off the job despite the wishes of their leadership. By definition, they are something uncontrollable and spontaneous.

View: “For Our Kids, For Our State”: History, Identity, and Narrative in the West Virginia Teacher Strikes of 2018 and 2019

“For Our Kids, For Our State”: History, Identity, and Narrative in the West Virginia Teacher Strikes of 2018 and 2019

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“Culture becomes not a haven of ideas or a fixed state of experience but a social imaginary erupting out of a storied cultural real.” (Stewart 1996, 63-4)

I remember the day when my father, a West Virginia University professor, accompanied some of his students to Charleston for Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in February 2018.

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DTFE Caucus, Joel Berger Collection

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A gallery of photos to explore.

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An Uneasy Union: Women Teachers, Organized Labor, and the Contested Ideology of Profession during the Progressive Era

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In 1907, Grace Strachan, a school principal and leader of New York’s Interborough Association of Women Teachers (IAWT), explained the significance of the organized teachers’ campaign. “I don’t think any of us are working simply for our own interests,” she offered.

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“Compulsory Unionism” and Its Critics: The National Right to Work Committee, Teacher Unions, and the Defeat of Labor Law Reform in 1978

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In 1977, a bill to better enforce the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) sailed quickly through the House of Representatives. Facing a Senate filibuster, its proponents weakened the proposal—making it, according to historian Jefferson Cowie, “lean, moderate, and basically unchallenging to the corporate order.”

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The Making of a Teachers’ Union: The National Education Association, USA, 1957-1973

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Not long ago, in the pages of this journal, I argued a number of propositions about the current state of historical research in the area of teacher unionism. One of those propositions was that a full explanation of the history of teacher union activity in the U.S.A. quite likely would require a three-pronged analysis involving the local, state, and national arenas.

Rebecca Garelli, an Oral History

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