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Public Workers in Service of America 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
Servants of the State: Managing Diversity and Democracy in the Federal Workforce, 1933–1953Table of ContentsForeword Joseph A. McCartin
Acknowledgments
A Note on Language
Introduction Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin
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 Cathleen D. Cahill
2 The Spoils as Reparations Eric S. Yellin
Part II: Good Government Jobs for Whom?
3 Dead End Job? Black Public Workers Struggle to See Light of Day Frederick W. Gooding Jr.
4 “We’re the Backbone of this City”: Women and Gender in Public Work Katherine Turk
Part III: Organizing Public Workers
5 Police Unions and Public-Sector Labor Law and Policy Joseph E. Slater
6 The Road to Memphis: Southern Sanitation Workers and the Transformation of Public Employee Unionism in the Postwar United States William P. Jones
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
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 Amy Zanoni
9 The Meaning of Teachers’ Labor in American Education: Change, Challenge, and Resistance Jon Shelton
Afterword Eileen Boris
Contributors
Index
