AFSCME's Philadelphia Story : Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century

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AFSCME's Philadelphia Story provides the most comprehensive account of the early years of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which is one of the nation's largest and most politically powerful unions in the AFL-CIO. Author Francis Ryan details the emergence of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan, Francis, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
AFSCME. > District Council 33 (Philadelphia, Pa.)
AFSCME. > District Council 33 (Philadelphia, Pa.) > History.
Labor & Workers' Economics.
Business & Economics.
Municipal officials and employees > Labor unions.
HISTORY > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Fonctionnaires municipaux > Syndicats > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Municipal officials and employees > Labor unions > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:AFSCME's Philadelphia Story provides the most comprehensive account of the early years of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which is one of the nation's largest and most politically powerful unions in the AFL-CIO. Author Francis Ryan details the emergence of the Quaker City's interracial union, charting its beginnings in the political patronage system of one of the nation's most notorious political machines to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Ryan provides new insight into the working class origins of African American political pow.
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9781439902806

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