This article analyzes the teacher union movement and the system of teacher bargaining in England and Wales. The author traces the postwar history of teacher negotiations and shows that the present system of negotiation has experienced increasing difficulties in the past decade, such as a rise in teacher militancy. (Author/CT)

During a 1990 Temple University faculty strike, three types of militancy (voting to strike, voting to defy injunction, picketing) had different determinants; for example, social support and union commitment related to riskier types. Other variables related to militancy included attitudes toward job, union, and militancy. (SK)

A sample of 524 elementary and 816 secondary teachers was used to evaluate the plausibility of 7 models of teacher militancy concerning issues of workplace control. The more plausible models are those that explain militancy as a function of the extent of teachers' integration into the organization and their affective response to organizational…

A questionnaire survey was made of 414 teachers and 482 registered nurses from three hospitals in western New York. The purpose of the survey was to investigate variation between teachers and nurses, the reasons for their attitudinal militancy, and why teachers are more militant than nurses. (DS)

Reports results of a survey of teachers employed by a school district in a medium-sized, midwestern city that has experienced four teachers' strikes since 1969. (HD)