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Book on Federalism, Unions, and the Wagner Act

Alexis N. Walker has written Divided Unions: The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). Walker contends that the exclusion of public-sector employees from the Wagner Act relegated such employees to protections offered by state and local governments — in contrast to the nationwide protections enjoyed by private-sector employees under the Wagner Act. Read more here.