Public Workers —— Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900–1962

----- 公共工作者：政府雇员工会，法律和国家，1900-1962

ISBN: 9781501707483 出版年：2016 页码：270 Cornell University Press

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, 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. The author shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history.