"This book examines teachers' work in pandemic times, where educators grapple with a worldwide virus that profoundly affects teaching and learning. This difficult situation allows educators and researchers to reflect critically on the enduring labor experiences that persist through this uncertain period, some of them rooted in conditions prevalent long before the pandemic hit. Written from a perspective that cuts across labor studies and education, the book touches upon current experiences, and explains how cultural and legally inscribed expectations of teachers have been remarkably impermeable over time. In particular, the volume focuses on the educational transformations that have taken place worldwide since the pandemic occurred, including reduced educational resources, labor strife, and contradictory governmental directives. As the book articulates, these changes affect some of the most persistent educational topics, including student achievement, student health, and teacher satisfaction"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction -- Layers of change : Ontario's policy regime -- Teachers' work and working conditions -- Teachers' work during the pandemic -- Sense making and the educational hierarchy -- Between a rock and a hard place : Ontario's teacher organizations & teacher advocacy -- Conclusion : building back better : the missing agenda -- Appendix A. How this book came to be -- Appendix B. Interview participants.