TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slater,Joseph E.
TI  - Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900–1962 
SN  - 9781501707483
U1  - 330 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Collective bargaining
KW  - Government employees
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Government employee unions
KW  - Labor History
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Boston Police Strike of 1919 --; 2. Yellow-Dog Contracts and the Seattle Teachers, 1928-1931 --; 3. Public Sector Labor Law before Legalized Collective Bargaining --; 4. Ground-Floor Politics and the BSEIU in the 1930s --; 5. The New York City TWU in the Early 1940s --; 6. Wisconsin's Public Sector Labor Laws of 1959 and 1962 --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501707483
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