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With the trend toward multinational corporations, free trade pacts and dismantling import barriers, organized labour has been steadily losing ground in the United States. To reverse this trend, this book argues that US unions must create ties with unions in other countries.
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Subject Index
absenteeism, and unionism, 290, 291, 292–293, 307
workplace outcome, 301, 304
AEA (American Economic Association), 4
AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization) 3, 8
annual increase in unions, 4
Enron scandal, 15–16, 18
potential open-source union membership, 16–18
resistance to industrial unionism, 19
Service Employees International Union, 24
unionization efforts, 7
African Americans, in building employees’ union, 26
age, and labor market prices, 173
union satisfaction, 267, 270
wage inequality, 211, 213
AI (artificial intelligence), 10–11
allocated earnings, and union wage gap, 125–127
arbitration, of cleaning service union contract, 50
attitudes to work, workers’ perspective, 299
autocracy, of employers, 79
unions, 72–73
bargaining duty of employers, 9, 353
BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics), 331
union labor statistics, 118, 120–122
union wage statistics, 116
Boeing and strikers’ use of Internet, 14
Bread and Roses, 24
briefing groups, and union representation, 258, 259
BSA (British Social Attitudes), 237
business cycle, and monetary policy, 150–151
supply and demand for labor, 149
capital mobility, and decline in union organization, 324, 325
employment growth, 353
checkoff, 50
CIO (Congress of Industrial Organization), formation of, 81
cleaning service firms in Los Angeles, 24
cognitive ability. See education.
cognitive dissonance, 106
collective bargaining, and different wage levels, 179–183
education, 173
employment, 172–173, 282, 286
employer opposition, 3
extension to nonunion firms, 354
government support, 79–82
its impact on wage distribution, 198–207, 217
The Netherlands, 204
New Zealand, 202, 203–204
Norway (case study), 200–202
OECD, 182
its protection by law, 77
public sector employees, 62–63
skilled/nonskilled labor, 172...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Figures, Tables, and Appendices
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Preface
- I. Unions and New Constituents
- II. Lessons from the Past and New Frontiers in Modeling Unionism
- III. Union Wage and Employment Effects: U.S. Evidence
- IV. Union Wage and Employment Effects: International Evidence
- V. Desire to Unionize and Union Impact on Workplace Practices and Performance
- VI. U.S. Union Organizing: Any Hope for a Rebound?
- Major Themes
- Contributors
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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