Title Public Workers in Service of America A Reader

Published Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (316 p.) Series Working Class in American History Series Working Class in American History Series Contents Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language -- Introduction -- Who's Running the Country? -- Defining Public Work -- Structure -- Part I: The Politics of Public Work at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century -- 1. Gender and Politics among Federal Indian Service Employees, 1880-1930 -- The Law, Feminism, and Civil Service -- Female Federal Employees and Political Activism -- 2. The Spoils as Reparations -- Patronage: Of Jobs and Politics -- Spoils Men -- New Machines -- The Ghosts of Reconstruction -- Conclusion Part II: Good Government Jobs for Whom? -- 3. Dead End Job? Black Public Workers Struggle to See Light of Day -- "I Was Hurting" -- Federal Financial Freedom Forbidden? -- The Unique Case of Black Federal Workers -- A Painstaking Process -- Desired Diversity Up to a Point -- John Henry Goes to Washington -- Captive Capital -- When Good Enough Is Not Good Enough -- Dead-End Job? -- 4. "We're the Backbone of This City": Women and Gender in Public Work -- Gender and Race Define Public Work -- New Rights Claims and Leverage Points -- Gendered Boundaries Remain -- Conclusion Part III: Organizing Public Workers -- 5. Police Unions and Public Sector Labor Law and Policy -- The Boston Police Strike of 1919 and Its Enduring Influence -- Police Unions and the Law in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- The First State Public Sector Collective Bargaining Law in Wisconsin and Police -- The Rise of Public Sector Labor Laws and Public Sector Unions -- Political Fights over Public Sector Unions in 2011 and Beyond -- The Debate over Police Unions as an Obstacle to Reform 6. The Road to Memphis: Southern Sanitation Workers and the Transformation of Public Employee Unionism in the Postwar United States -- AFSCME Goes South -- Black Workers on Their Own -- Southern Cities Fight Back -- AFSCME Gets a Second Chance -- Garbage In, Garbage Out -- 7. "They Won't Work for a Cop of Any Kind": The 1970 Sanitation Slowdown and the Struggle for Black Independent Politics in Philadelphia -- "My People Don't Want to Work for a Policeman" -- Building Community Alliances -- More Than Cash? -- The Limits of Social Justice Unionism -- Part IV: Public Workers in the Neoliberal Age 8. Sick-Ins, Feed-Ins, Heal-Ins, and Strikes: Labor Organizing at Chicago's Public Hospital in the 1960s and Its Legacy for the 1970s -- Exposing Labor and Patient Conditions -- Building an Organizing Momentum -- The "First Strike" -- The "Heal-In" -- A Democratic Organizing Tradition for the 1970s -- 9. The Meaning of Teachers' Labor in American Education: Change, Challenge, and Resistance -- The Rise of Universal Public Education -- The Rise of Teachers' Unions -- Teaching in a Neoliberal World -- Social Democratic Teachers' Unionism -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Civil service -- United States -- History -- 20th century Discrimination -- Government policy -- United States Government employee unions -- United States Collective bargaining -- Government employees -- United States Neoliberalism -- Political aspects -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE / General Civil service. Collective bargaining -- Government employees. Discrimination -- Government policy. Government employee unions. United States. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Yellin, Eric S McCartin, Joseph A Boris, Eileen Cahill, Cathleen D Jones, William Powell Zanoni, Amy Shelton, Jon Turk, Katherine Slater, Joseph E ISBN 9780252054549 0252054547

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