Prevailing Wage Rate Laws
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Labor
ISBN :
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Labor
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Page : 810 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Wisconsin
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Author : Wisconsin State Employment Service
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Labor supply
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Author : Michael D. Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 1583672826
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin's state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members and their allies. The protests to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly forty years of neoliberalism and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression have battered the labor movement, and workers have been largely complacent in the face of stagnant wages, slashed benefits and services, widening unemployment, and growing inequality. That is, until now.
Author : Genevieve G. McBride
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299140045
On Wisconsin Women traces the role women played in reform movements, both in Wisconsin state politics and in its press. Women's news and opinions often appeared anonymously in abolitionist journals and other reform newspapers even before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. The first state newspaper published under a woman's name was boycotted and failed in 1853. But from the passage of the 14th amendment in 1866 to Wisconsin's ratification of the 19th amendment in 1919, women were never at a loss for words or a newspaper to print them. Women's news won a new respectability under feminine bylines and led to the historic victory for women's suffrage. McBride undertakes the task of considering feminist reform as a conceptual whole.
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Scott Spoolman
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0870208500
Hit the trail for a dramatic look at Wisconsin’s geologic past. The impressive bluffs, valleys, waterfalls, and lakes of Wisconsin’s state parks provide more than beautiful scenery and recreational opportunities. They are windows into the distant past, offering clues to the dramatic events that have shaped the land over billions of years. Author and former DNR journalist Scott Spoolman takes readers with him to twenty-eight parks, forests, and natural areas where evidence of the state’s striking geologic and natural history are on display. In an accessible storytelling style, Spoolman sheds light on the volcanoes that poured deep layers of lava rock over a vast area in the northwest, the glacial masses that flattened and molded the landscape of northern and eastern Wisconsin, mountain ranges that rose up and wore away over hundreds of millions of years, and many other bedrock-shaping phenomena. These stories connect geologic processes to the current landscape, as well as to the evolution of flora and fauna and development of human settlement and activities, for a deeper understanding of our state’s natural history. The book includes a selection of detailed trail guides for each park, which hikers can take with them on the trail to view evidence of Wisconsin’s geologic and natural history for themselves.
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Insurance, Unemployment
ISBN : 9781578620135
Author : Joseph E. Slater
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501707477
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. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.
Author : Jason Stein
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0299293831
parliamentary maneuvers, a camel slipping on icy Madison streets as union firefighters rushed to assist, massive nonviolent street protests, and a weeks-long occupation that blocked the marble halls of the Capitol and made its rotunda ring. Jason Stein and Patrick Marley, award-winning journalists for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, covered the fight firsthand. They center their account on the frantic efforts of state officials meeting openly and in the Capitol's elegant backrooms as protesters demonstrated outside. Conducting new in-depth interviews with elected officials, labor leaders, cops, protestors, and other key figures, and drawing on new documents and their own years of experience as statehouse reporters, Stein and Marley have written a gripping account of the wildest sixteen months in Wisconsin politics since the era of Joe McCarthy.