Teacher Unionism: An Assessment of Teachers' Motives for Joining Unions

This dissertation attempts to enter the thicket of the motivational structure of individual teachers who join unions as a necessary step toward a better understanding of the problems facing American teacher unionism today. The purpose of this study is as follows: (1) to theoretically identify teachers' motives for joining unions; (2) to empirically identify teachers' motives for joining unions; (3) to investigate the relative importance of the empirically identified motives; (4) to assess the relative importance of the functions of teacher organizations (professional, economic, political) in terms of their influence on teachers' joining unions; and (5) to assess whether or not motives for joining unions differ between teachers with different union affiliations.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Ota, Haruo

• Education, Administration

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8600279

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69026