‘Learning and labor’: faculty unionization at the University of Illinois, 1919–1923

Abstract

This article examines the creation, activities, and demise of the Federation of Teachers of the University of Illinois, American Federation of Teachers Local 41. Organized in 1919, the local sought to unite faculty, provide them with input into academic governance, and improve their remuneration while also linking faculty with other workers. The efforts of, experiences of, and reactions to Local 41 demonstrate conflicted notions of professionalism and labor, divisions within the faculty, barriers between educators and other laborers, and threats to academic freedom during the first wave of faculty unionization.

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