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More than They Bargained For : Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin /

When Wisconsin became the first state in the nation in 1959 to let public employees bargain with their employers, the legislation catalyzed changes to labor laws across the country. In March 2011, when newly elected governor Scott Walker repealed most of that labor law and subsequent ones and then b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stein, Jason (Journalist)
Otros Autores: Marley, Patrick (Journalist)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Actors in the events
  • Chronology
  • "Put up or shut-up"
  • A preacher's son
  • "Open for business"
  • "The first step"
  • "Dropping the bomb"
  • Laboratory of democracy
  • First protests
  • The interstate of Illinois
  • First assembly vote
  • A state divided
  • The beast from Buffalo
  • Lost sleep and "hallucinazations"
  • The capitol in lockdown
  • "Seven thousand people in the statehouse"
  • No deal
  • End game
  • Rebukes and recount
  • A court divided
  • Recalls
  • Recalls redux
  • Conclusion.