Historians have conducted important research on the rise of law-and-order politics in New York City, where anxieties over women’s freedoms, political battles over police oversight, and crime impacts in poor communities contributed to its rise. The numerous walkouts, negotiations, and worker-management conflicts around high-crime areas in New York City suggest that the question of law and order was a salient workplace issue as well for the members of Communication Workers of America Local 1101. In their case, such concerns predate the rhetorical rise of law and order and help us better understand why such politics found fertile ground among working-class New Yorkers, white and black. Repeated incidences, largely in the city’s black ghettoes, prompted workers with a strong class consciousness and commitment to solidarity to transform the problems and experiences of individual workers into a shared question to be addressed via collective action.

历史学家对纽约市治安政治的兴起进行了重要研究，在纽约，人们对妇女自由的忧虑，对警察监督的政治斗争以及对贫困社区的犯罪影响促成了其兴起。纽约市高犯罪率地区周围的众多罢工，谈判和工人管理冲突表明，对于美国本地通信工作者协会1101成员来说，法律和秩序问题也是一个突出的工作场所问题。这些担忧早于法律和秩序的豪言壮语，并帮助我们更好地理解了为什么这样的政治在工人阶级的纽约人（无论是白人还是黑人）中找到了肥沃的土壤。重复发生的情况，主要是在城市的黑色贫民窟，