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. He 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.
Slater, J. Public Workers : Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State,1900-1962,
Cornell University Press, 2004, 260 p., 0-8014-4012-2.
Slater, J. .
Public Workers : Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State,1900-1962.
Ithaca etc.: Cornell University Press, 2004, 260 p., 0-8014-4012-2.
Slater, J. (2004)
Public Workers : Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State,1900-1962,
Ithaca etc.: Cornell University Press, 260 p., 0-8014-4012-2
Slater, J.
(2004).
Public Workers : Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State,1900-1962. Ithaca etc.: Cornell University Press, 260 p..
