The urban community and its unionized bureaucracies; pressure politics in local government labor relations

Study of labour relations in local government in the USA, with particular reference to the evolution and role of trade unions in the urbanpublic sector - covers the formation of employees associations and trade unions, the evolution of collective bargaining in selected urban areas, the political behaviour of public servants, civil service employment policies, local finance, the strike issue, dispute settlement and arbitration, bureaucracy, etc. Bibliography pp. 329 to 349.