The future of private sector unions in the U.S.

Lipset, Seymour Martin; Katchanovski, Ivan

doi:10.1007/s12122-001-1031-x

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“…For employers, keeping their workplace outside the scrutiny of the Labor Court relies on sustaining union membership at a minimum, thus repressing the efforts of union activists. Lipset and Katchanovski (2001) argue that libertarian and individualist values hamper U.S. private sector unionism more strongly than employer hostility does. In contrast, Comstock and Fox (1994) assert that claims suggesting employer resistance does not play a significant role in union decline defy common sense.…”

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Fear and Leadership in Union Organizing Campaigns

Murphy

2016

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This article adopts a mobilization framework to examine the crucial actions of workplace activists in overcoming fear of employer reprisal during union organizing campaigns in hostile environments. The article explores fear as part of the organizing process in two ways; first, we examine how fear can act as a stimulus for workplace activists to take action in an attempt to overcome the source of that fear. Second, we examine fear as an inhibiting factor in organizing, whereby the presence of fear hinders individuals from taking action. Using qualitative data from interviews conducted with workplace activists across a variety of campaigns in Ireland, this article examines the process through which workplace activists conquer their own sense of fear and undertake the task of mobilizing colleagues toward collective action in pursuit of union representation amid fear of employer reprisal.

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Fear and Leadership in Union Organizing Campaigns

Murphy

2016

Sage Open

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“…Absent such a consensus, we are likely to see a continued marginalization of unions in the private sector, increasing governmental regulation of labor markets, and an underprovision of value-enhancing voice in the workplace. IFor example, see Freeman (1997), Farber and Western (2000), and Lipset and Katchanovski (2001).…”

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“…Work by Farber (1990) and Farber and Krueger (1992) has concluded that weakened preferences for unionism explain much of the decline over time. Lipset and Katchanovski (2001) measure preferences associated with social democratic or collectivist values, as compared to individualistic values. They conclude that more than in other countries, U.S. workers tend to be far more individualistic and that this perspective helps explain the low levels of private sector density.…”

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Private sector union density and the wage premium: Past, present, and future

Hirsch

Schumacher

2001

J Labor Res

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“…The U.S. has been experiencing a steady decline in trade union membership rates over the last forty years, reaching a seventy-year-low in 2010. This decline is seen largely as a private sector phenomenon (Lipset and Katchanovski, 2001;18 Exceptions to this surrender occurred during the war. The most important one of which was the coal strike led by the United Mine Workers in 1943.…”

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The Pacification of the American Working Class: A Time Series Analysis

Rigakos¹,

Ergul²

2013

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In this paper we operationalize and empirically test six core tenets of pacification theory derived from Marxian political economy using time series data for the USA from 1972-2009. Our analysis confirms that rising inequality is statistically significantly correlated to increased public and private policing over time and that increased public and private policing is also statistically significantly correlated to increased industrial exploitation as measured through "surplus-value". While unionization correlates to strikes and lock-outs which suggests that unions have an important mobilizing role for the industrial reserve army, unionization also inversely correlates to total policing employment. As union membership decreases, policing employment increases, which gives credence to the notion that unions may also act as policing agents for capital. We conclude that when these findings are coupled with our previous international research of 45 countries for the snapshot year of 2004 (Rigakos and Ergul 2011) that produced almost identical results, there appears to be significant empirical support for pacification theory. The relationships we have discovered recur both across time and international contexts despite the fact that variations in legal norms and institutional histories of policing are varied and complex.

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The future of private sector unions in the U.S.

Cited by 36 publications

References 9 publications

Fear and Leadership in Union Organizing Campaigns

Fear and Leadership in Union Organizing Campaigns

Private sector union density and the wage premium: Past, present, and future

The Pacification of the American Working Class: A Time Series Analysis

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