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

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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 In March 2011, when newly elected governor Scott Walker repealed most of that labor law and subsequent ones and then b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stein, Jason (Journalist)
Other Authors: Marley, Patrick (Journalist)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Protest movements.
Politics and government
Labor movement.
Collective bargaining > Government employees.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Contestation > Wisconsin > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Mouvement ouvrier > Wisconsin > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Collective bargaining > Government employees > Wisconsin.
Protest movements > Wisconsin > History > 21st century.
Labor movement > Wisconsin > History > 21st century.
Wisconsin.
Wisconsin > Politique et gouvernement > 21e siecle.
Wisconsin > Politics and government > 21st century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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