Tithi Bhattacharya, Eric Blanc, Kate Doyle Griffiths and Lois Weiner

Abstract

Bringing together leading observers of the 2018 teachers’ strikes in the United States, this forum surveys the origins, character, and trajectory of the rebellion as a whole. We examine the relations between union bureaucracies and the rank and file, the wider political context of the United States, the geography of the strike, immediate and longer-term grievances in the public-education sector, spontaneity and organisation, local cultural contexts and labour histories, strategies and tactics, social reproduction and gender, race and racism, and the potentialities and obstacles facing the movement in the near future.

Keywords: teachers; strike; strike wave; education; labour; unions; rank and file; United States

From: Historical Materialism 2018 26 (4)

Editor: Wang Yi