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Author:   Richard Steier
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   Excelsior Editions
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781438449548

ISBN 10:   1438449542
Pages:   301
Publication Date:   01 October 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Unions on the Run A New Sheriff's in Town; The Town Is Nottingham Staring Down the Barrel of Reagan's Legacy The 'Evil Genius' Loses One 'Christmas Bonuses' and Other Wicked Fables Unions Finally Aroused by Mayor's Distortions Pensions a Beachhead for Class Warfare Tabs to Randi: Burn, Baby Sister Randi Explains It All OTB Workers Unwilling to Gamble on Defiance 'The Prince' Incarnate in a Cuomovellian Gambit With Leaders Like These... Judge Speaks Loud for McLaughlin's Victims A School Bus Frame-Up DOE Won't Talk About Let's Not Strike for Spike Busfellas' Past Helped Mayor to Break Strike Police Unions in All Their Complexities Enough Blame to Go Around A Tough Guy Gets Undressed Savage Steps Out Boldly Giuliani's Toxic Cynicism The Demise of a Once-Great Union Targets: Friends of Rudy Gotbaum's Revised History Stern Reaction for DC 37 Delusions of Entitlement An Absence of Leadership Sad Tale of Two Charlies She Didn't Stick to Story DC 37, after the Gold Rush Butler's Banana Republic Roberts Is Queen of Denial Roberts Wins, DC 37 Loses Elegy for a Flawed Fighter Same Old Song for DC 37 The Rise and Fall of a Militant Whose Vision Went Sour Toussaint's Quiet Revolution The World v. Mr. Toussaint Hard to Be Toussaint in City For Toussaint, Power Is All That's Left What Killed Roger Rebel? A Self-Inflicted Wound Epilogue Index

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No one knows New York City's working men and women better than journalist Richard Steier. Whether he's depicting the heroic exploits of legendary union leaders or exposing the excesses of corrupt labor bosses or recounting pivotal battles over labor contracts, Steier always provides fresh, behind-the-scenes insight into the vast world of municipal workers, a group that too often is unfairly maligned. And he does it all with a powerful bare-knuckle style that will leave you wishing for more. - Juan Gonzalez, staff columnist, New York Daily News If you want to know about municipal unions in New York City, you need to read Richard Steier. I sometimes disagree with him, but for more than two decades he has been one of the most informative and provocative chroniclers of the ins and outs of public sector labor. - Joshua B. Freeman, author of American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000 New York City's labor unions have been luckier than they deserved to have had reporter and editor Richard Steier around to spotlight their occasional triumphs and their much more frequent failures. Like Murray Kempton, another great New York columnist who loved the men and women of labor but who never suffered the fools who sometimes ran their unions, Steier's columns are filled with news, insight, and always compassion for those who ride (and drive) the early trains and buses to work. - Tom Robbins, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Steier presents an impassioned case for public sector unions and the benefits they have won, along with fascinating tales of the machinations inside several of the largest unions in New York City-District Council 37, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the 2005 strike that paralyzed the city, and the United Federation of Teachers. - Alair Townsend, former New York City Budget Director and Deputy Mayor

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Veteran labor journalist Richard Steier is editor and columnist for the Chief-Leader and the coauthor (with Len Ragozin and Len Friedman) of The Odds Must Be Crazy: Beating the Races with the Man Who Revolutionized Handicapping and Created The Sheets. He lives in Bellerose, New York.

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