| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Public Workers; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Boston Police Strike of 1919; 2. Yellow-Dog Contracts and the Seattle Teachers, 1928-1931; 3. Public Sector Labor Law before Legalized Collective Bargaining; 4. Ground-Floor Politics and the BSEIU in the 1930s; 5. The New York City TWU in the Early 1940s; 6. Wisconsin's Public Sector Labor Laws of 1959 and 1962; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Government employee unions -- United States -- History.
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Government employee unions. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Collective bargaining -- Government employees -- United States -- History.
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Collective bargaining -- Government employees. |
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United States -- Officials and employees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Slater, Joseph E., 1960- Public workers. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004 0801440122 (DLC) 2003020656 (OCoLC)426888651 |
| ISBN |
9781501707483 (electronic book) |
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1501707485 (electronic book) |
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0801440122 |
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9780801440120 |
| Standard No. |
10.7591/9781501707483 |
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