Public workers since 1960 traded client advocacy for higher pay and bargaining power

Evidence

The trends in public employment since, say, 1960 reflect these alternatives. Public service workers have increased their share of national wealth through higher pay and benefit levels, increased their collective bargaining power, and acquiesced in and often encouraged developments such as specialization, computerization, and fragmentation of responsibilities for clients. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 600

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does Lipsky cite evidence for the claimed post-1960 trade-off, or is it asserted from the alienation framework? Worth chasing the supporting data.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Street-level bureaucrats won unprecedented control over their own working conditions through unions. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 96; Worker political gains came at the expense of client-oriented service

Broader Connections

• Worker political gains came at the expense of client-oriented service #corroborates (0.90)