Date of Award
8-1-2013
Document Type
Campus Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
James Green
Second Advisor
Timothy Hacsi
Third Advisor
Paul Bookbinder
Abstract
This study looks at how the introduction of collective bargaining transformed the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the country. Previous scholarship has highlighted the NEA's slow pace of transformation from professional association to teachers union but few studies have looked at how state affiliates of the NEA made this same transition. This study uses the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) as its primary case study to illustrate that a far quicker transition occurred at the state and local levels. MTA sources also highlight how independent local associations often were in setting their own agenda. Ultimately, it was the local associations that played a decisive role in transforming the national organization, complicating existing narratives on the NEA's hesitant transformation.
Recommended Citation
Rinaldi, Jamie A., "The Teacher Revolt: Militancy, Grassroots Mobilization, and Local Autonomy in the National Education Association and the Massachusetts Teachers Association (1960-1980)" (2013). Graduate Masters Theses. 199.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/199
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