Between Class and Market : : Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies / / Bruce Western.
In the United States, less than one worker in five is currently in a labor union, while in Sweden, virtually the entire workforce is unionized. Despite compelling evidence for their positive effects, even the strongest European unions are now in retreat as some policymakers herald the U.S. model of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- PART I: THE PROBLEM
- One Class Power, Market Power, and the Comparative Method
- Two Variation in Union Membership
- PART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL SOURCES OF UNION GROWTH
- Three Labor Market Centralization
- Four The Ghent System
- Five Political Parties and Trade Unions
- PART III: ESTIMATING THE INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS
- Six Cross-Sectional Analysis of Union Density
- Seven The Business Cycle and Union Growth
- Eight The Structure of Labor Markets
- PART IV: THE TURBULENT 1980s
- Nine Introducing the Decline of Unions in the 1980s
- Ten Power, Efficiency, and Institutional Change
- Eleven Globalization, Institutional Change, and Union Decline in the 1980s
- Twelve Conclusion
- Appendix: Data and Methods
- Bibliography
- Index