Strike!
Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law
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Product details:
- Publisher University Of Minnesota Press
- Date of Publication 31 January 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781517913441
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 216x140x25 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 b&w illustrations 0
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Long description:
The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics
When viewed from our turbulent times, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago might seem serene, but Minneapolis schoolteachers of the day remember it quite differently. It was, author William D. Green said of their recollections, as if they’d been through war. This book recreates twenty days in April 1970 when a then-illegal strike by Minneapolis’s public school teachers marked a singular moment of cultural upheaval-and forever changed the city’s politics, labor law, educational climate, and the right to collective bargaining.
Since the inception of public education in Minnesota, teachers were expected to pursue their vocation out of civic spirit, with low wages, no benefits, and no job security. Strike! describes the history and circumstances leading to the teachers’ extraordinary action, which pitted the progressive and conservative teachers’ unions against each other-and both against the all-powerful school district, a hostile governor and state legislature, and a draconian Minnesota law. Capturing the intense emotions and heated rivalries of the strike, Green profiles the many actors involved, the personal and professional stakes, and the issues of politics, law, and the business of education.
Informed by interviews, firsthand accounts, news reports, and written records, Strike! brings to life a pivotal moment not just for Minneapolis’s teachers but for the city itself, whose government, school system, and culture would, in a complex but inexorable way, change course for good.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: In the Glare of the President’s Eyes
1. The Gathering of the 1025 Club at 50th and Nicollet
2. Alone on a Very Dangerous Path: The Legacy
3. A Plan of Action
4. “Three Weeks in the Bitter Cold”
5. A Question for Being
6. The Split Within
7. Political Capital
8. No Torch, No Gun: A Delicate State
9. Waiting for the Shadows to Disappear
10. No Alternatives
11. “It’s a stinking law!”
Epilogue: A New Day
Notes
Index
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