Assistant Masters' Association Explained

Assistant Masters' Association
Founded:	1891
Dissolved:	1978
Merged:	Assistant Masters' and Mistresses' Association
Members:	40,000 (1978)
Publication:	The Journal of the Assistant Masters' Association
Location Country:	United Kingdom
Affiliation:	WCOTP
Headquarters:	29 Gordon Square, London

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

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.

General Secretaries

1901: C. J. C. Mackness

1902: W. H. D. Rouse

1906: J. G. Lamb

1921: George Dixon Dunkerley^[3]

1939: Andrew Hutchings

References

1. Book: The A.M.A.: The Journal of the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters of Secondary School . 1939 . University of Ilinios . 142 . 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. Book: Marsh . Arthur . Ryan . Victoria . Historical Directory of Trade Unions . 1 . 1980 . Gower . Farnborough . 0566021609 . 8 - 9 .
3. Book: Walker . Geoffrey . Conditions of service for secondary schoolmasters in England and Wales, 1891-1951, with special reference to the work of the Assistant Masters' Association . 1995 . 6 July 2018.

External links

• Records of the Assistant Masters' Association at University College London