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