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The Industrialization of Education, Part Four: Schools in the United States, 1975-2022
A story of data and dollar signs.
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Angry Education Workers
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Rybin
The Industrialization of Education, Part Three: Schools in the United States, 1930-1975
A historical taxonomy of class power in American schools and the communities surrounding them.
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Angry Education Workers
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Rybin
The Industrialization of Education, Part Two: Schools in the United States, 1840-1930
Class struggle has been a defining feature of education under capitalism since its earliest days. We're tracing this history by analyzing multiple…
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Angry Education Workers
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Rybin
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Anonymous Education Worker
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Proletarians or Professionals? A History from Below of Teacher Unionism in the United States, 1897-2021
We republish the text that helped inspire the formation of this collective.
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Rybin
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Angry Education Workers
An Abridged Education Workers' Self-Inquiry
We selected the most important questions from our pamphlet "An Education Workers' Self-Inquiry" to pose to fellow education workers in the DMV region.
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Angry Education Workers
The Industrialization of Education, Part One: The Class Divide
This essay is the introduction to an upcoming series on the history of education through the lens of capitalist social relations and industrialization…
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Angry Education Workers
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Rybin
, and 
Anonymous Education Worker
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Ordering the Arena of Modern Life: The Role of World's Fairs in the Education Industry
This essay makes the case for the IWW and other revolutionary unions to strategically target world's fairs and other expositions for organizing.
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Rybin
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Christina Bishop
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Angry Education Workers
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The Performing Arts Proletariat vs. The Band Directors
A brilliant inquiry into the history of music education, particularly the origin of the band director in the authoritarian social relationships of…
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Christina Bishop
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Angry Education Workers
How Volksmusik Became Polka Music
The cultural history of German American volksmusik and its exploitation, especially during Prohibition—with insight into the intimate connections…
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Christina Bishop
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Angry Education Workers
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Proletarians or Professionals?
A History from Below of Teacher Unionism in the United States
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Rybin
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Angry Education Workers
The Industrialization of Education: Phase Three, 1992-Today
A Taxonomy of Privatization, corruption, and profit in the Neoliberal Education Industry
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Rybin
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Angry Education Workers
The Industrialization of Education: Phase Two, 1954-1975
A Taxonomy of Class Power in Education during the Cold War
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Angry Education Workers
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Rybin
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