1984
DOI: 10.2307/367959
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Teachers Organize: What Margaret Haley Lost

Abstract: "I never wanted to fight" (Haley, p. 3). With those words Margaret Haley began her autobiography. But fight she did. For more that three decades, she was the voice of what was for a while the most militant teachers' union in the country, the Chicago Teachers Federation. She spoke for the underpaid, female elementary school teachers in the second largest public school system in the U.S. "This little woman," Carl Sandburg wrote of her in 1915, "has flung her clenched fist into the faces of contractors, school la… Show more

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