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Dr. Lois Weiner
Currently working as an independent researcher and author, I am Professor Emerita at New Jersey City University. I examine teachers’ work and labor activism, analyzing how teachers unions can be democratized to realize their full potential: centering social justice to defend public education; supporting the teaching profession; and improving conditions in which students learn, especially those children who have the greatest need for quality schools.
My current research examines how the global transformation of work within capitalism as a social system, especially uses of information technology, has altered teachers’ work, as well as who decides what should be changed.
All of my work is informed by my experiences and scholarship as a professor of education specializing in urban schools and teaching, teachers unions, as well as what I have learned as a career teacher, a union officer and rank-and-file activist.
I write frequently on teachers unions, labor, and education for popular publications, including New Politics , Truthout, and the Jacobin.