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Public workers : government employee unions, the law, and the state, 1900-1962 /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Slater, Joseph E., 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Boston police strike of 1919
  • Yellow-dog contracts and Seattle teachers, 1928-1931
  • Public sector labor law before legalized collective bargaining
  • Ground-floor politics and the BSEIU in the 1930s
  • The New York City TWU in the early 1940s
  • Wisconsin's public sector labor laws of 1959 and 1962.