The Boston police strike of 1919 -- Yellow-dog contracts and Seattle teachers, 1928-1931 -- Public sector labor law before legalized collective bargaining -- Ground-floor politics and the BSEIU in the 1930s -- The New York City TWU in the early 1940s -- Wisconsin's public sector labor laws of...

"The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.S. are prone to more frequent and more destabilizing domestic and international financial crises. So, in the aftermath of the one that erupted in 2008, they propose that now we are sleepwalking into another,...