Turmoil in the Chicago Schools, 1902 and 1905 -- Centralization and professionalization -- Unionism and professionalism : the first sparks -- The early teacher unions -- Professionalism, war, and the company union -- Gadfly union : outside the mainstream -- The crash and its effects on schools -- Warfare in the AFT -- Iron Curtain in the classroom -- Civil rights : the contest for leadership -- Collective bargaining : the coming of age of teacher unionism -- Black power v. union power : the crisis of race -- Professionalism and unionism in the seventies and eighties
