Drescher / Scheuerman / Steen United University Professions

Pioneering in Higher Education Unionism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7469-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Tells the story of the nation's largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drescher, Nuala McGann

Scheuerman, William E.

Steen, Ivan D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The State University of New York Prior to Unionization

2. The Right to Bargain Collectively, 1967–73

3. The Emergence of United University Professions, 1973–81

4. Organizational Structure, Internal Disagreement, Innovation, and Growth, 1981–87

5. Expanding the Role of UUP, 1987–93

6. UUP Matures: Part I, 1993–2001

7. UUP Matures: Part II, 2001–2007

8. New Challenges and Future Prospects

Note on Sources
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nuala McGann Drescher is Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the State University of New York College at Buffalo and a retired UUP president. She is the author of Engineer for the Public Good: A History of the Buffalo District US Army Corps of Engineers. William E. Scheuerman is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Oswego, retired President of the National Labor College, and retired UUP president. He is the author (with Sidney Plotkin) of Private Interest, Public Spending: Balanced-Budget Conservatism and the Fiscal Crisis. Ivan D. Steen is Associate Professor of History Emeritus at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Urbanizing America: The Development of Cities in the United States from the First European Settlements to 1920.