Assistant Masters' Association

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Assistant Masters' Association
Merged into Assistant Masters' and Mistresses' Association
Founded1891
Dissolved1978
Headquarters29 Gordon Square, London
Location
  • United Kingdom
Members
40,000 (1978)
PublicationThe Journal of the Assistant Masters' Association
Affiliations WCOTP

The Assistant Masters' Association (AMA) was a trade union representing male teachers in British secondary schools.

Contents

The union was founded in 1891 as the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools, although it soon became the "Assistant Masters' Association", a counterpart to the Association of Assistant Mistresses (AAM). Philip Edgar Martineau was one of the founders of the association. [1] Membership of the union grew steadily, reaching 3,259 in 1910, and about 40,000 by 1978. [2]

From 1978, single-sex trade unions were prohibited, and the AMA accordingly merged with the AAM, forming the Assistant Masters' and Mistresses' Association. [2]

General Secretaries

1901: C. J. C. Mackness
1902: W. H. D. Rouse
1906: J. G. Lamb
1921: George Dixon Dunkerley [3]
1939: Andrew Hutchings [3]

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References

  1. The A.M.A.: The Journal of the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters of Secondary School. University of Ilinios. 1939. p. 142. Retrieved 18 November 2023. Philip Edgar Martineau , one of the founders of the Association , who collapsed and died on March 10th while staying at Weston - super - Mare . Mr. Martineau was in his early days a master at Wellesbourne House School , Birmingham , and ...
  2. 1 2 Marsh, Arthur; Ryan, Victoria (1980). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 1. Farnborough: Gower. pp.  8–9. ISBN   0566021609.
  3. 1 2 Walker, Geoffrey (1995). Conditions of service for secondary schoolmasters in England and Wales, 1891-1951, with special reference to the work of the Assistant Masters' Association (PDF). Retrieved 6 July 2018.