State and Local Policies and Sectoral Labor Standards

From Individual Rights to Collective Power

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3435233
AutoresK Jacobs (0000-0002-4417-0023, autor de correspondencia), Rebecca A Smith (0000-0002-3422-1894), Rebecca Smith (0000-0003-3441-7130), Justin Mcbride (0000-0001-8420-1456, Ken Jacobs is the Chair of the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Rebecca Smith is the Director of Work Structures for the National Employment Law Project. Justin McBride is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles)
Año2021
Volumen74
Número5
Páginas1132-1154
Fecha de publicación2021-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00197939211020706
OpenAlexW3173336059
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas19

The US enterprise-based collective bargaining regime creates substantial limitations for organizing workers in an economy in which supply chains are increasingly disaggregated in ways that reduce worker power. Federal labor law generally preempts state and local policies that directly address private-sector bargaining. State and local governments, however, are not preempted from setting general labor standards. The authors examine four cases of recent experiments using sectoral standards at the local level. The cases show that sectoral standards have the potential to expand new forms of social bargaining through state and local public policy in areas of the country where worker organizations are already strong. Sectoral standards can do so in ways that promote worker organization and build institutional power, especially when combined with robust worker organizing. In presenting these cases, the authors show both the potential power, and limitations, of federalism in US workplace regulation

Bargaining power · Business · Collective bargaining · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Federalism · Labour economics · Local government · Market economy · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Private sector · State (computer science) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Public Administration