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Public Workers - Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962 (Paperback)
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Public Workers - Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962 (Paperback)
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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.
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