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Recent teacher walkouts affirm public education as a crucial public benefit and understand the rampant disinvestment in public education not simply as a local issue affecting teacher paychecks but also as a danger to communities and to democracy. In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states--both right-to-work states, like West Virginia, and those with a unionized workforce--followed them over the next year. From Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma to Colorado and California, teachers announced to state legislators that not only their abysmal wages but the deplorable conditions of their work and the increasingly straitened circumstances of public education were unacceptable.This collection gathers together original essays, written by teachers involved in strikes nationwide, by students and parents who supported them, by journalists who covered these strikes in depth, and by outside analysts (academic and otherwise) who have considered the place of these strikes in the broader landscape of recent labor organizing and battles over public education and have attended to the largely female workforce and, often, largely non-white student population of America's schools.

Strikes and lockouts --- Education --- Teachers --- Teachers --- Social aspects --- Social conditions.

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This book describes and analyses the 2003 British Airways (BA) Customer Service Agents (CSA) 24-hour unofficial strike. It examines the lead up to the dispute, in which negotiations failed to reach an agreement before focusing on the dispute itself and its eventual resolution.

Airline check-in agents --- Strikes and lockouts --- Airlines --- History --- Employees --- Labor unions --- British Airways --- Management

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Oral histories with participants in and observers of the Battle of Blair Mountain and other Appalachian mine wars of the 1920s and 1930s, supplemented with introductory material, maps, and photographs"--

Strikes and lockouts --- Coal mines and mining --- Coal miners --- West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921. --- Coal mining --- History

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A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague our entire criminal justice system—from mass incarceration to police brutality. We take for granted that some crimes are violent and others aren’t. But how do we decide what counts as a violent act? David Alan Sklansky argues that legal notions about violence—its definition, causes, and moral significance—are functions of political choices, not eternal truths. And these choices are central to failures of our criminal justice system. The common distinction between violent and nonviolent acts, for example, played virtually no role in criminal law before the latter half of the twentieth century. Yet to this day, with more crimes than ever called “violent,” this distinction determines how we judge the seriousness of an offense, as well as the perpetrator’s debt and danger to society. Similarly, criminal law today treats violence as a pathology of individual character. But in other areas of law, including the procedural law that covers police conduct, the situational context of violence carries more weight. The result of these inconsistencies, and of society’s unique fear of violence since the 1960s, has been an application of law that reinforces inequities of race and class, undermining law’s legitimacy. A Pattern of Violence shows that novel legal philosophies of violence have motivated mass incarceration, blunted efforts to hold police accountable, constrained responses to sexual assault and domestic abuse, pushed juvenile offenders into adult prisons, encouraged toleration of prison violence, and limited responses to mass shootings. Reforming legal notions of violence is therefore an essential step toward justice.

Political violence --- Violence (Law) --- Violent crimes --- Three Strikes. --- career offenders. --- corporal punishment. --- gun rights. --- juvenile justice. --- juvenile offenders. --- nonviolence. --- police brutality. --- police. --- prison violence. --- prisons. --- recidivism. --- sentencing. --- violence. --- violent crime. --- youth violence. --- Law and legislation --- Three Strikes. --- career offenders. --- corporal punishment. --- gun rights. --- juvenile justice. --- juvenile offenders. --- nonviolence. --- police brutality. --- police. --- prison violence. --- prisons. --- recidivism. --- sentencing. --- violence. --- violent crime. --- youth violence.

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On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and placing a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader working-class struggle and reawakened long-suppressed leftist ideals. The first account of its kind in English, Roots of Resistance explores contemporary Honduran labor history through the story of the great banana strike of 1954 and centers the role of women in the narrative of the labor movement. Drawing on extensive firsthand oral history and archival research, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda examines the radical organizing that challenged US capital and foreign intervention in Honduras at the onset of the Cold War. She reveals the everyday acts of resistance that laid the groundwork for the 1954 strike and argues that these often-overlooked forms of resistance should inform analyses of present-day labor and community organizing. Roots of Resistance highlights the complexities of transnational company hierarchies, gender and race relations, and labor organizing that led to the banana workers' strike and how these dynamics continue to reverberate in Honduras today.

Banana trade --- General Strike, Honduras, 1954. --- Labor movement --- Strikes and lockouts --- Women in the labor movement --- History --- History. --- Honduras, Honduran history, banana workers, banana republic, labor movement, labor organizing, gender studies.