"The future of public education hangs in the balance. As this book shows, only teachers can save it for future generations." – Diane Ravitch, New York University.
“Strike for the Common Good” is a timely and thoughtful volume that tells their stories and their frustrations. It explains how they came together as a powerful force to demand the equitable resources their students and their schools needed.“ – Becky Pringle, National Education Association President:
"An engaging and incisive examination of the wave of educator strikes in 2018-19 that will be remembered as a defining moment of activism —a moment when educators, parents, and communities came together to reject the war on the public education and serve up a new narrative about the promise of public schools and teachers as pillars of democracy, communities, and racial and economic justice." – Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers President:
"Strike for the Common Good promises to be the definitive source for learning about the current wave of teachers' strikes." – Chris Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology, UCLA
The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Frontline in the United States and United Kingdom
Rebecca Kolins Givan
More information at Cornell University Press.
Read an adapted excerpt at Jacobin.
The Diffusion of Social Movements: Actors, Mechanisms and Political Effects
Edited by Rebecca Kolins Givan, Kenneth M. Roberts and Sarah A. Soule.