Masters Thesis

Strike committees and the 2016 Palestinian teachers' strike

This is a study of the Palestinian teachers' strike of 2016. The month-long strike, involving 35,000 teachers, was conducted outside of and against the will of the official union, the GUPT and the Palestinian Authority. This study asks how the teachers were able to mobilize on such a scale and for such a sustained period. A dozen interviews were conducted with a selection of rank and file teachers, veteran activists, and union officials Using this material, as well as qualitative analysis of news reports and other documents, the strike is analyzed through the lens of contentious politics. The results suggest that the decisive feature in the teachers' strike was the use of democratically-elected strike committees, a social movement organization rooted in the experience of underground teachers' union activists before the Oslo period.

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