Public Workers in Service of America : A Reader

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Autor principal: Gooding Jr., Frederick W.
Otros Autores: Slater, Joseph E., Turk, Katherine, Shelton, Jon, Zanoni, Amy, Jones, William Powell, Cahill, Cathleen D., Boris, Eileen, McCartin, Joseph A., Yellin, Eric S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Language
  • Introduction
  • Who's Running the Country?
  • Defining Public Work
  • Structure
  • Part I: The Politics of Public Work at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
  • 1. Gender and Politics among Federal Indian Service Employees, 1880-1930
  • The Law, Feminism, and Civil Service
  • Female Federal Employees and Political Activism
  • 2. The Spoils as Reparations
  • Patronage: Of Jobs and Politics
  • Spoils Men
  • New Machines
  • The Ghosts of Reconstruction
  • Conclusion
  • Part II: Good Government Jobs for Whom?
  • 3. Dead End Job? Black Public Workers Struggle to See Light of Day
  • "I Was Hurting"
  • Federal Financial Freedom Forbidden?
  • The Unique Case of Black Federal Workers
  • A Painstaking Process
  • Desired Diversity Up to a Point
  • John Henry Goes to Washington
  • Captive Capital
  • When Good Enough Is Not Good Enough
  • Dead-End Job?
  • 4. "We're the Backbone of This City": Women and Gender in Public Work
  • Gender and Race Define Public Work
  • New Rights Claims and Leverage Points
  • Gendered Boundaries Remain
  • Conclusion
  • Part III: Organizing Public Workers
  • 5. Police Unions and Public Sector Labor Law and Policy
  • The Boston Police Strike of 1919 and Its Enduring Influence
  • Police Unions and the Law in the Mid-Twentieth Century
  • The First State Public Sector Collective Bargaining Law in Wisconsin and Police
  • The Rise of Public Sector Labor Laws and Public Sector Unions
  • Political Fights over Public Sector Unions in 2011 and Beyond
  • The Debate over Police Unions as an Obstacle to Reform
  • 6. The Road to Memphis: Southern Sanitation Workers and the Transformation of Public Employee Unionism in the Postwar United States
  • AFSCME Goes South
  • Black Workers on Their Own
  • Southern Cities Fight Back
  • AFSCME Gets a Second Chance
  • Garbage In, Garbage Out
  • 7. "They Won't Work for a Cop of Any Kind": The 1970 Sanitation Slowdown and the Struggle for Black Independent Politics in Philadelphia
  • "My People Don't Want to Work for a Policeman"
  • Building Community Alliances
  • More Than Cash?
  • The Limits of Social Justice Unionism
  • Part IV: Public Workers in the Neoliberal Age
  • 8. Sick-Ins, Feed-Ins, Heal-Ins, and Strikes: Labor Organizing at Chicago's Public Hospital in the 1960s and Its Legacy for the 1970s
  • Exposing Labor and Patient Conditions
  • Building an Organizing Momentum
  • The "First Strike"
  • The "Heal-In"
  • A Democratic Organizing Tradition for the 1970s
  • 9. The Meaning of Teachers' Labor in American Education: Change, Challenge, and Resistance
  • The Rise of Universal Public Education
  • The Rise of Teachers' Unions
  • Teaching in a Neoliberal World
  • Social Democratic Teachers' Unionism
  • Afterword
  • Contributors
  • Index

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