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NEA Today, Jan 2000

Taking charge of quality. How teachers and their unions can revitalize schools. NEA Professional Library. To order, visit the NEA Professional Library at www.nea.org/books. Or call 800/229-4200.

United Mind Workers: Unions and teaching in the knowledge society, Charles T Kerchner, Julia E. Koppich, and Joseph Weeres. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997. Argues that teachers need to seize the opportunity created by education reform by focusing on innovation and quality control.

Forming the Future: Lessons from Saturn. Jack O'Toole. Blackwell Publishers, 1996. $22.95. A United Auto Workers representative offers a history of the ideas that led to the creation of the innovative Saturn plant. The book defends the Saturn collaboration as a model for the future of labor-management relations.

Negotiating the future: a labor perspective on American business. Barry Bluestone and Irving Bluestone. Basic Books, 1994. The Bluestones propose a new Enterprise Compact that enables labor to become co-responsible for all management decisions.

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