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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wallerstein, Michael
• Western, Bruce

Titel

Unions in Decline? What Has Changed and Why

Ist Teil von

• Annual review of political science, 2000-01, Vol.3 (1), p.355-377

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Between 1950 & 1980, labor markets grew increasingly organized in advanced industrial societies. Union membership in most countries expanded more rapidly than the labor force, centralized wage setting became more common, & union members became increasingly concentrated in a small number of large unions. Between 1980 & 1992, however, union density fell on average, & centralized wage setting grew increasingly rare. Only union concentration continued to increase in the 1980s. Existing theories of union organization & collective bargaining institutions are largely successful in explaining both the trends over time & much of the cross-national variation from 1950 to 1980, but they fail to account for the dramatic declines in union strength that some (but not all) countries have experienced since 1980. 5 Tables, 84 References. Adapted from the source document.