کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1000699 937043 2009 22 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Union organizing effort and success in the U.S., 1948–2004
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و مالیه (عمومی)
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Union organizing effort and success in the U.S., 1948–2004
چکیده انگلیسی

While union density in the public sector has increased in recent decades, private sector union density in the U.S. has declined steadily since the mid-1950s. Scholars have evoked a variety of explanations to account for the decline in union membership, but substantially less attention has been devoted to understanding the contribution of the union organizing process as governed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In this paper, we focus on two aspects of this process: union organizing effort (the effort to establish union representation elections to organize non-unionized workers) and union organizing success (success in winning union representation elections). Using annual time series data for the U.S. from 1948 to 2004, we show that there has been a long-term decline in both union organizing effort and union organizing success, which likely contributes to declining union density. We focus on three explanations for these changes: the political–legal environment for unions, deindustrialization and globalization, and employer opposition to unionization efforts. We find that each of these factors contributes to organizing effort and success and conclude with a discussion of the implications of this research for future mobilization efforts.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility - Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 13–34
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