Max Page is a professor of architecture and history at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. He is president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and a founding member of Educators for a Democratic Union.
Outgoing Massachusetts Teachers Association president Max Page reflects on a decade of rank-and-file reformers turning a cautious, staff-driven union into a militant, member-led force by striking, winning stronger contracts, and pushing to tax the rich.
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration was a key New Deal agency that put millions of unemployed workers back to work on public infrastructure projects. We need a new WPA for the 21 century.