Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962

by Joseph E. Slater

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801440122
• ISBN13: 9780801440120
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher