Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962 Contributor(s): Slater, Joseph E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801440122 ISBN-13: 9780801440120 Publisher: ILR Press OUR PRICE: $67.27 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Law | Labor & Employment - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
Dewey: 331.881 |
LCCN: 2003020656 |
Series: Ilr Press Books |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.02" W x 9.26" (1.22 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Slater, Joseph E.: - Joseph E. Slater is Eugene N. Balk Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo. |