Trade Union Growth and Decline An International Study

Subjects:

• Economics » Labor Relations

Reviews:

• Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections.
  —Choice
• ...his findings merit the attention of anyone interested in the future of unions in the United States and other nations.
  —Monthly Labor Review
• Trade Union Growth and Decline explores likely union futures and their possible causes well. In particular, the nation-by-nation discussion of potential explanatory factors will prove valuable to students of labor unions of every disciplinary, theoretical, and ideological slant. The general forecast--of union decline in all developed nations but those where unions have been strongest, and of union growth principally in the most rapidly growing developing nations--is a basic message for our age, with major implications for citizens' prospective collective action and governmental provisions of public goods. The book should serve as the primer of choice on its important topic.
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Table of Contents:

• Trade Union Membership
• Economic Growth and Industrial Restructuring
• Earnings, Inflation, Unemployment, and Female Employment
• The Impact of Government
• The Quality of Trade Union Services
• Employer Attitudes
• Public Opinion
• Can Union Decline Be Arrested