Chapter 1 Perspectives on Teacher Unions: History, Discourse, and Renewal

Chapter 2 Gender and Status: Ontario Teachers’ Associations in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 Defending Teachers’ Rights and Promoting Public Education: Evolving and Emerging Union Strategies within a Globalized Neoliberal Context

Chapter 4 Remembering, Reimagining, and Reviving Social Justice Teacher Unionism

Chapter 5 Fragility and Volatility in Teacher Union—Governmental Relations

Chapter 6 Model Citizen or Bad Influence? The Contested Nature of Teachers’ Public Activism

Chapter 7 The Formal and Informal Contexts of Union Socialization

Chapter 8 Classroom, Community, and Contract: A New Framework for Building Moral Legitimacy and Member Activism in Teacher Unions

Chapter 9 Why and How a Teacher Union Supports Autonomous Teacher Professional Development in an Age of New Managerialism

Chapter 11 Education Reform in England and the Emergence of Social Movement Unionism: The National Union of Teachers in England

Chapter 12 The Teachers’ Trifecta: Democracy, Social Justice, Mobilization

Chapter 13 Conclusion