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Book Review

The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line. By Steve Golin. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. xii, 288 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8135-3057-1.)
The Newark Teacher Strikes is a model historical monograph. Focusing on the 1970 and 1971 strikes by the Newark Teachers Union, Steve Golin reports a painful story in all of its intricate complexity. Golin draws on interviews with fifty-two Newark teachers as well as more traditional sources to describe the context and the day-to-day reality of the three-week strike in 1970 and the much more violent and racially divisive eleven-week strike of 1971. While teachers struck for many reasons, improved opportunities for their students and more money and decision-making power for themselves, Newark's political leaders and community groups—and in 1971 a more and more united African American community—opposed the teachers for equally complex reasons. . . .
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