AFSCME's Philadelphia story
Subtitle: municipal workers and urban power in the twentieth century
By: Francis Ryan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439902783; 9781439902806
Subjects: AFSCME. District Council 33 (Philadelphia, Pa.); Municipal officials and employees; AFSCME; Labor Unions; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Ward politics and municipal labor in Philadelphia in the 1920s; title: The founding of the Municipal Workers Union; title: Forging municipal unionism in Philadelphia, 1939-1945; title: The challenge of reform, 1946-1952; title: Working for America's city 1952-1961; title: The new militancy in Philadelphia; title: The Stout era, 1970-1986; title: Philadelphia municipal workers in a global age.