{"product_id":"public-workers-in-service-of-america-9780252087318","title":"Public Workers in Service of America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePublic Workers in Service of America\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and consequential history of public sector-work that demonstrates how public employees from diverse backgrounds have fought to define their rights over time and in a wide variety of occupations. It contributes to an essential conversation about the need for a robust and inclusive public workforce in a nation that often uncritically embraces the private sector.”--Margaret C. Rung, author of \u003ci\u003eServants of the State: Managing Diversity and Democracy in the Federal Workforce, 1933–1953\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword Joseph A. McCartin\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Note on Language \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction  Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part I: The Politics of Public Work at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1 Gender and Politics among Federal Indian Service Employees, 1880-1930  Cathleen D. Cahill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2 The Spoils as Reparations  Eric S. Yellin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part II: Good Government Jobs for Whom? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3 Dead End Job? Black Public Workers Struggle to See Light of Day  Frederick W. Gooding Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4 “We’re the Backbone of this City”: Women and Gender in Public Work  Katherine Turk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part III: Organizing Public Workers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5 Police Unions and Public-Sector Labor Law and Policy  Joseph E. Slater\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 6 The Road to Memphis: Southern Sanitation Workers and the Transformation of Public Employee Unionism in the Postwar United States  William P. Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 7 “They Won’t Work for a Cop of Any Kind”: The 1970 Sanitation Slowdown and the Struggle for Black Independent Politics in Philadelphia  Francis Ryan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part IV: Public Workers in the Neoliberal Age \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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  Amy Zanoni\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 9 The Meaning of Teachers’ Labor in American Education: Change, Challenge, and Resistance  Jon Shelton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Afterword  Eileen Boris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400524505431,"sku":"9780252087318","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252087318.jpg?v=1730470893","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/public-workers-in-service-of-america-9780252087318","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}