Crisis in the public sector : a reader /
[by the Economics Education Project of the Union for Radical Political Economics] ; reader editorial collective, Kenneth Fox, Mary Jo Hetzel, Thomas Riddell, Nancy Rose, and Jerry Sazama.
- New York : Monthly Review Press : [1982].
- vi, 351 pages : tables ; 21 cm.
1. Introduction: the nature of the public sector / Reader editorial collective: Ken Fox, Mary Jo Hetzel, Tom Riddell, Nancy Rose, and Jerry Sazama -- Part I: understanding the crisis -- 2. The crisis in perspective / Michele Naples, Tom Riddell, and Nancy Rose -- 3. The accumulation crisis and service professionals / Dale L. Johnson and Christine O'Donnell -- 4. A class analysis of state workers / J. Gregg Robinson -- Part II: the economics of the crisis -- 5. The tax system and the tax revolt / Jerry Sazama -- 6. The great tax revolt / Popular Economics Research Group -- 7. Pension power and the public sector / Laura Katz Olson -- 8. The financial crisis in Cleveland / Andrew J. Winnick, Judith Gregory, and Jerry Mandina -- Part III: the crisis in the community -- 9. We shall not be moved: urban renewal in Philadelphia / Harold A. McDougall -- 10. The politics of revitalization: organizing in Newark / Terri Suess and Bob Cartwright -- 11. Welfare rights: organizing in Massachusetts / Beryl Minkle -- 12. Repressive welfare / Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center -- 13. Why talk about socialism? / City Life/Vida Urbana -- Part IV: the crisis and public sector unions -- 14. Public sector unionism / Paul Johnston -- 15. Public sector unions and the labor movement / Michael D. Yates -- 16. Public sector workers and the crisis of capitalism / Martin Hart-Landsberg, Jerry Lembcke, and Bob Marotto -- 17. Public sector labor relations / Mark H. Maier -- Part V: the crisis and public sector workers -- 18. Contracting out: attrition of state employees / Suzanne Sankar -- 19. Union organizing in day care / Andrew McCormick -- 20. Proposition 13: fighting cutbacks in Alameda County / Gregory Topakian, and Laura Henze -- Part VI: the crisis in political perspective -- 21. The far-right plan for 1980 / Sasha Lewis -- 22. The ideology of the New Right / Allen Hunter -- 23. Beyond liberalism / Mary Jo Hetzel and John Brouder.
"This Reader deals with the crisis in the public sector—the fact that programs directed at human needs for working people and the poor are being cut in order to aid the private business sector. The goal of this collection of articles is to examine the public sector crisis: to put it into historical perspective, to explore its roots and causes, to spell out some of its effects, and to consider some of the actual and potential reactions to it. -- From the introduction.
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Government spending policy--United States. Economic assistance, Domestic--United States. Economic history