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Union-active teachers in Chicago and elsewhere have recently fought to reform their organizations in the name of social justice. This growing movement is remarkable, but it is not new. Organizational histories commissioned or written by teacher union insiders (Chafe 1968; Cuff 1985; French 1968; Glass 1989; NUT 2008) and accounts of teacher unionism written by educational historians and sociologists (Danylewycz and Prentice 1986; Foley 1995; Gaskell 2008; Murphy 1990; Smaller 1991; Urban 1982) suggest at least five periods of social justice teacher union activism since the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Rottmann, C., Kuehn, L., Stewart, C., Turner, J., Chamberlain, J. (2015). Remembering, Reimagining, and Reviving Social Justice Teacher Unionism. In: Bascia, N. (eds) Teacher Unions in Public Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426567_4
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