Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam : public education, state centralization, and teacher unionism in France and the United States / Nicholas Toloudis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toloudis, Nicholas, 1977-

Series:

Politics, history, and social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers' unions--France--History.

Teachers' unions.

Teachers' unions--New York (State)--New York--History.

Education and state--France--History.

Education and state.

History.

France.

Education and state--New York (State)--New York--History.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xvi, 213 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam shows how teachers' unions came into existence not as a result of the willful efforts of particular actors, but over the course of decades of conflict over the appropriate role of professional educators in public politics.

Nicholas Toloudis traces teacher unionism back to the first efforts of governments to centralize public education. He carefully documents how centralization created new understandings of the role of teachers in their societies and generated new sources of conflict within teachers' corps. Using rare archival source materials, Toloudis illustrates how these internal conflicts became salient in teachers' battles with governments over their legitimate right to exist as collective claim makers within the polity.

In the series Politics, History, and Social Change, edited by John G. Torpey Book jacket.

Contents:

Teachers, politics, and the state

Centralization, mobilization, and selective engagement

Centralizing public education and teachers' politics in 19th century France

Centralization and its discontents among New York City teachers

Selective engagement and teachers' politics in France, 1887-1950

Selective engagement and teachers' politics in New York City, 1920-1960

Marianne and Uncle Sam revisited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439909065

1439909067

1439909083

9781439909089

OCLC:

769991167