Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Divided Unions : The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor / Alexis N. Walker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public LawPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) : 8 illusContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780812251821
  • 9780812296662
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.881135173 23
LOC classification:
  • HD6508 .W355 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Wagner Act: A Critical Exclusion -- Chapter 3. After Wagner (1936-1960): Life Without Collective Bargaining Rights -- Chapter 4. 1961: The Public Sector's Watershed Moment -- Chapter 5. The 1970s: Labor Out of Alignment -- Chapter 6. The Late 1970s to the 2010s: Labor on the Decline -- Chapter 7. The 2010s: The Modern Assault Against Public Sector Unions -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Consequences of Labor's Enduring Divide -- Appendix: Interview Method Description -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: The 2011 battle in Wisconsin over public sector employees' collective bargaining rights occasioned the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War. Protestors occupied the state capital building for days and staged massive rallies in downtown Madison, receiving international news coverage for the events. Despite an unprecedented effort to oppose Governor Scott Walker's bill, Act 10 was signed into law on March 11, 2011, stripping public sector employees of many of their collective bargaining rights and hobbling government unions in Wisconsin. By situating the events of 2011 within the larger history of public sector unionism, Alexis N. Walker demonstrates how the passage of Act 10 in Wisconsin was not an exceptional moment, but rather the culmination of events that began over eighty years ago with the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935.Although explicitly about government unions, Walker's book argues that the fate of public and private sector unions are inextricably linked. She contends that the exclusion of public sector employees from the foundation of private sector labor law, the Wagner Act, firmly situated private sector law at the national level, while relegating public sector employees' efforts to gain collective bargaining rights to the state and local levels. She shows how private sector unions benefited tremendously from the national-level protections in the law while, in contrast, public sector employees' efforts progressed slowly, were limited to union friendly states, and the collective bargaining rights that they finally did obtain were highly unequal and vulnerable to retrenchment. As a result, public and private sector unions peaked at different times, preventing a large, unified labor movement. The legacy of the Wagner Act, according to Walker, is that labor remains geographically concentrated, divided by sector, and hobbled in their efforts to represent working Americans politically in today's era of rising economic inequality.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780812296662

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Wagner Act: A Critical Exclusion -- Chapter 3. After Wagner (1936-1960): Life Without Collective Bargaining Rights -- Chapter 4. 1961: The Public Sector's Watershed Moment -- Chapter 5. The 1970s: Labor Out of Alignment -- Chapter 6. The Late 1970s to the 2010s: Labor on the Decline -- Chapter 7. The 2010s: The Modern Assault Against Public Sector Unions -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Consequences of Labor's Enduring Divide -- Appendix: Interview Method Description -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

The 2011 battle in Wisconsin over public sector employees' collective bargaining rights occasioned the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War. Protestors occupied the state capital building for days and staged massive rallies in downtown Madison, receiving international news coverage for the events. Despite an unprecedented effort to oppose Governor Scott Walker's bill, Act 10 was signed into law on March 11, 2011, stripping public sector employees of many of their collective bargaining rights and hobbling government unions in Wisconsin. By situating the events of 2011 within the larger history of public sector unionism, Alexis N. Walker demonstrates how the passage of Act 10 in Wisconsin was not an exceptional moment, but rather the culmination of events that began over eighty years ago with the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935.Although explicitly about government unions, Walker's book argues that the fate of public and private sector unions are inextricably linked. She contends that the exclusion of public sector employees from the foundation of private sector labor law, the Wagner Act, firmly situated private sector law at the national level, while relegating public sector employees' efforts to gain collective bargaining rights to the state and local levels. She shows how private sector unions benefited tremendously from the national-level protections in the law while, in contrast, public sector employees' efforts progressed slowly, were limited to union friendly states, and the collective bargaining rights that they finally did obtain were highly unequal and vulnerable to retrenchment. As a result, public and private sector unions peaked at different times, preventing a large, unified labor movement. The legacy of the Wagner Act, according to Walker, is that labor remains geographically concentrated, divided by sector, and hobbled in their efforts to represent working Americans politically in today's era of rising economic inequality.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)