Open AccessPosted Content
The Two Faces of Unionism
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This article showed that the view of unions as organizations whose chief function is to raise wages is seriously misleading and that unions have significant non-wage effects which influence diverse aspects of modern industrial life.Abstract:
Our research demonstrates that the view of unions as organizations whose chief function is to raise wages is seriously misleading. For in addition to raising wages, unions have significant non-wage effects which influence diverse aspects of modern industrial life. By providing workers with a voice both at the workplace and in the political arena, unions can and do affect positively the functioning of the economic and social systems. Although our research on the non-wage effects of trade unions is by no means complete and some results will surely change as more evidence becomes available, enough work has been done to yield the broad outlines of a new view of unionism.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach
TL;DR: The transaction cost approach to the study of economic organization regards the transaction as the basic unit of analysis and holds that an understanding of transaction cost economizing is central to the analysis of organizations as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain involuntary unemployment in terms of the response of firms to workers' group behavior, and they also give a theory for division of labor markets between primary and secondary.
Journal ArticleDOI
Effects of Ownership Structure and Control on Corporate Productivity
TL;DR: In this article, a model that attempts to describe the influence of ownership structure on productivity differences between firms was developed and tested, and the authors theorized that diversification, investment in R&D, and investment in technology can influence productivity differences among firms.
Book ChapterDOI
The Economic Theory of Trade Unions: An Introductory Survey
TL;DR: An introductory survey of work on the economic theory of trade union behaviour can be found in this article, which concentrates on recent contributions to the literature, sets out a number of central results and ideas, and speculates on future topics for research.
ReportDOI
Unionization and Firm Performance: The Impact on Profits, Growth and Productivity
TL;DR: This article examined the impact of unionization on profit ability, growth and productivity using time series data on over 900 product line businesses in the North American manufacturing sector (predominantly U.S.).
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Racial Discrimination and Trade Unionism
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the likely determinants of a union's policy regarding race and estimates of the effect of the presence of unionism on the average wage of black workers relative to the average of white workers under various types of union organizational structure are presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
Benefits as a Preferred Form of Compensation
TL;DR: Workers often strongly desire to take at least part of any gains in compensation in the form of certain insurance-type benefits, and there are indications that worker preference for compensation in form of benefits has been increasing during the past two decades as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Unions and Nonwage Racial Discrimination
TL;DR: In this paper, racial differences in the union impact on non-wage labor outcomes, the exit propensity of individual workers, and opportunities for occupational upgrading are examined. But the authors do not consider the role of race in union membership.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Impact of the Coal Strike of 1977–1978
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of coal strikes on the health and safety of the United States was discussed, and the effect of governmental intervention in labor disputes was also discussed, focusing on coal strike in 1977-78 in United States.
Journal ArticleDOI
Officer Turnover and Salary Structures in Local Unions
TL;DR: In this article, the labor turnover and salary structure of local union officers is investigated. But the authors focus on the turnover and the salary structure. And they do not provide any information on the officers of a local union.