{"product_id":"public-workers-government-employee-unions-the-law-and-the-state-1900-1962-9781501705755","title":"Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph E. Slater\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: ILR Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003ci\u003ePublic Workers \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46494538072215,"sku":"9781501705755","price":4085.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501705755.webp?v=1769174736","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/public-workers-government-employee-unions-the-law-and-the-state-1900-1962-9781501705755","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}