Jack Fiorito
Biographic Data
| ID | 974212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Fiorito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Fiorito |
| SIGNATURE | FIORITO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1898-4354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
C’est pareil mais différent: A comparison of union support in France and the U.S
Although research has shown that support for United States (U.S.) unions centers on improving members’ working conditions, recent investigation suggests unions’ roles in helping all working people and addressing broader societal issues also deserve attention. Outside the U.S., research has long supported the importance of the latter, prosocial roles. This paper draws on prior research to develop a conceptual model outlining the basis for worker s…
What Do Workers and the Public Want? Unions' Social Value
Using data from a national sample of American workers, the authors develop measures for "prosocial unionism"-the belief that unions contribute to the common good-and use regression analysis to determine its impact on public support for unions and on workers' likelihood of supporting a union in a representation election in their workplace. Results show that the public's support for unions is stronger when the public believes that unions act in the…
Precarious Work, Young Workers, and Union-Related Attitudes: Distrust of Employers, Workplace Collective Efficacy, and Union Efficacy
This study examined the effects of precarious work characteristics on U.S. workers’ attitudes about three union-related issues using the 2009 Young Worker Survey. Union-related criteria included distrust in employers to treat employees fairly, collective efficacy (rather than individual) in solving workplace problems, and union efficacy in terms of whether union members are better off (or worse off) than nonunion workers. The results suggest that…
Employment Relations
This article describes employment relations (also known as “industrial relations”). Employment relations is a field of study and practice focused on the interactions between workers and employers to establish terms and conditions of employment at the workplace and in the broader society. Government often plays an important role in these matters, as do organizations of workers and employers. Changing terminology and related subjects are discussed,…
Lay Activism and Activism Intentions in a Faculty Union: An Exploratory Study
Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism’s antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, thus providing considerable diversity in work settings within a single employer organization. Using survey and archival data, this study explores the role of selected contextual factors on faculty labor activism. A tentative but …
The backward march of labour halted? Or, what is to be done with 'union organising'? The cases of Britain and the USA
This article evaluates the phenomenon and dynamics of union organising. It neither presents a critique of variants of union organising nor a preferred version of union organising as the solution. Rather, it provides some of the intellectual resources needed to create theoretically informed practice. It examines critiques of union organising to foreground discussion of the two key hallmarks of union organising to date; namely, officer domination a…
The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations
Renewal in the United Faculty of Florida: Class War in Paradise
This paper reviews faculty union developments in Florida public universities during 2000-2005, a tumultuous period in which the statewide university governance board was abolished and governance was devolved to university-level boards. The Jeb Bush Administration used devolution to eliminate bargaining for thousands of faculty at eleven universities. Using a case study format and participant-observer perspective, we emphasize the perspective of k…
Information and communications technology use in British unions
Purpose Aims to review British labour union leaders’ views on the use and importance of information and communications technology (ICT) within their unions. Design/methodology/approach An open‐ended e‐mail survey and personal interviews conducted in 2000‐2001 with union leaders provides the primary original data for this research. Responses are content analysed to assess the importance leaders assign to ICT for unions, to review the ways in which…
Union Renewal and the Organizing Model in the United Kingdom
This paper summarizes research that focuses on the process of "union renewal" currently underway in many unions. The research is based on survey responses and interviews involving United Kingdom (U.K.) union officers and staff and uses information gathered dur ing late 2000 and early 2001. This paper also addresses the related issue of "organizing model" adoption in the United Kingdom. Most U.K. unionists see organizing the unorganized as a criti…
Unions and Information Technology: From Luddites to Cyberunions
Survey data are used to examine the use of, and views about, infor mation technology (IT) among U.S. national unions. Usable responses were received from nearly two-thirds of such unions. In addition to de scriptive information regarding IT use in national unions, this paper ten tatively explores both the causes and consequences of IT use. While IT use of some sort is found to be nearly universal, there is considerable variation across unions in …
Planning for Change: Determinants of Innovation in U.S. National Unions
Although it is commonly argued that unions need to innovate in order to grow and achieve success, little is known about the characteristics of unions that facilitate or hinder innovation. The authors of this study develop a model of union innovation and test it using data collected from many sources, including a 1990 survey of 275 officials and staff members from 111 American national unions. The results suggest that certain union characteristics…
National Union Effectiveness in Organizing: Measures and Influences
The percentage of the U.S. work force that is unionized is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. Although many studies have sought the reasons for this decline, few have investigated characteristics of unions themselves as possible factors. This paper focuses on unions as organizations, and applies a model of national union effectiveness to union organizing. The authors propose a composite measure of organizing effectiveness that goes beyond…
The State of the Unions
Associate Membership: Unionism or Consumerism
Analyzing data from the Union Image Survey (a 1984 Harris poll examining workers' attitudes toward various forms of employee organization), the authors compare the motives and characteristics of workers who expressed a desire to join an associate membership program with those of workers who indicated a readiness to vote for traditional union representation. The results confirm the hypothesis that workers' interest in the types of consumer benefit…
Union Participation in Japan: Do Western Theories Apply
This study investigates the validity in Japan of union participation models developed in North America. The results of ordinary least squares analysis suggest that members' participation in unions is positively related to many of the same factors in Japan as in North America: for example, length of union membership, pay, dissatisfaction regarding pay and working conditions, degree of interaction with others in the work group, and perceptions of t…
The Effects of Union Organizational and Environmental Characteristics on Union Political Action
It is well known that organized labor is politically active. Few studies, however, have examined labor's political activities or assessed the extent of interunion differences in political action. This study partially fills these research gaps by empirically analyzing the involvement of individual unions in electoral and legislative activities over the years 1978-82. The results suggest that union-specific characteristics influence union political…
Satisfaction with Union Representation
This study develops and empirically tests a model of satisfaction with union representation using national data from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey. Overall union satisfaction is specified as a function of union members' expectations concerning union efforts and the perceived outcomes of union performance on (1) bread and butter issues (such as wages and benefits), (2) quality of work issues (such as job interest and workers' voice in the …
The Effect of Union Characteristics on the Outcome of NLRB Certification Elections
This paper examines the determinants of National Labor Relations Board certification election outcomes in individual election units between 1972 and 1980. Particular emphasis is given to the role of national union characteristics in determining union success or failure. The authors find that union success in organizing both blue- and white-collar workers is influenced positively by union size and internal democracy and negatively by strike activi…
Union Characteristics and Bargaining Outcomes
This paper investigates the impact of union militancy, size, centralization, and democracy on wages, fringe benefits, and other bargaining outcomes. Using data on bargaining outcomes at the bargaining unit level in conjunction with data on comparative union characteristics, the authors find strong evidence that union characteristics affect bargaining outcomes. Determining the exact nature of those effects is complicated by several problems-notabl…
Market and Nonmarket Influences on Curriculum Choice by College Students
Many labor economists and other researchers have attempted to develop models of the workings of the market for college-trained manpower. This paper reviews this previous research on curriculum choice and then tests an alternative model with data on choices made by male baccalaureates across a wide spectrum of science and engineering curricula. The influence of both methodology and the analytical framework on the identification of relevant variabl…
The School-to-Work Transition of College Graduates
This study investigates the relationship between curriculum choice and occupational choice. The lag between curriculum choice and degree attainment generally ensures a mismatch between new labor supply and employer requirements, even if students are quite responsive to labor market conditions. The author hypothesizes that adjustment to that lag is primarily a function of market conditions and the technical compatibility of possible combinations o…
The Effect of Union Characteristics on the Outcome of NLRB Certification Elections
This paper examines the determinants of National Labor Relations Board certification election outcomes in individual election units between 1972 and 1980. Particular emphasis is given to the role of national union characteristics in determining union success or failure. The authors find that union success in organizing both blue- and white-collar workers is influenced positively by union size and internal democracy and negatively by strike activi…
National Union Effectiveness in Organizing: Measures and Influences
The percentage of the U.S. work force that is unionized is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. Although many studies have sought the reasons for this decline, few have investigated characteristics of unions themselves as possible factors. This paper focuses on unions as organizations, and applies a model of national union effectiveness to union organizing. The authors propose a composite measure of organizing effectiveness that goes beyond…
Satisfaction with Union Representation
This study develops and empirically tests a model of satisfaction with union representation using national data from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey. Overall union satisfaction is specified as a function of union members' expectations concerning union efforts and the perceived outcomes of union performance on (1) bread and butter issues (such as wages and benefits), (2) quality of work issues (such as job interest and workers' voice in the …
Associate Membership: Unionism or Consumerism
Analyzing data from the Union Image Survey (a 1984 Harris poll examining workers' attitudes toward various forms of employee organization), the authors compare the motives and characteristics of workers who expressed a desire to join an associate membership program with those of workers who indicated a readiness to vote for traditional union representation. The results confirm the hypothesis that workers' interest in the types of consumer benefit…
The Effects of Union Organizational and Environmental Characteristics on Union Political Action
It is well known that organized labor is politically active. Few studies, however, have examined labor's political activities or assessed the extent of interunion differences in political action. This study partially fills these research gaps by empirically analyzing the involvement of individual unions in electoral and legislative activities over the years 1978-82. The results suggest that union-specific characteristics influence union political…
Planning for Change: Determinants of Innovation in U.S. National Unions
Although it is commonly argued that unions need to innovate in order to grow and achieve success, little is known about the characteristics of unions that facilitate or hinder innovation. The authors of this study develop a model of union innovation and test it using data collected from many sources, including a 1990 survey of 275 officials and staff members from 111 American national unions. The results suggest that certain union characteristics…
The backward march of labour halted? Or, what is to be done with 'union organising'? The cases of Britain and the USA
This article evaluates the phenomenon and dynamics of union organising. It neither presents a critique of variants of union organising nor a preferred version of union organising as the solution. Rather, it provides some of the intellectual resources needed to create theoretically informed practice. It examines critiques of union organising to foreground discussion of the two key hallmarks of union organising to date; namely, officer domination a…
Union Renewal and the Organizing Model in the United Kingdom
This paper summarizes research that focuses on the process of "union renewal" currently underway in many unions. The research is based on survey responses and interviews involving United Kingdom (U.K.) union officers and staff and uses information gathered dur ing late 2000 and early 2001. This paper also addresses the related issue of "organizing model" adoption in the United Kingdom. Most U.K. unionists see organizing the unorganized as a criti…
Unions and Information Technology: From Luddites to Cyberunions
Survey data are used to examine the use of, and views about, infor mation technology (IT) among U.S. national unions. Usable responses were received from nearly two-thirds of such unions. In addition to de scriptive information regarding IT use in national unions, this paper ten tatively explores both the causes and consequences of IT use. While IT use of some sort is found to be nearly universal, there is considerable variation across unions in …
Union Participation in Japan: Do Western Theories Apply
This study investigates the validity in Japan of union participation models developed in North America. The results of ordinary least squares analysis suggest that members' participation in unions is positively related to many of the same factors in Japan as in North America: for example, length of union membership, pay, dissatisfaction regarding pay and working conditions, degree of interaction with others in the work group, and perceptions of t…
Renewal in the United Faculty of Florida: Class War in Paradise
This paper reviews faculty union developments in Florida public universities during 2000-2005, a tumultuous period in which the statewide university governance board was abolished and governance was devolved to university-level boards. The Jeb Bush Administration used devolution to eliminate bargaining for thousands of faculty at eleven universities. Using a case study format and participant-observer perspective, we emphasize the perspective of k…
What Do Workers and the Public Want? Unions' Social Value
Using data from a national sample of American workers, the authors develop measures for "prosocial unionism"-the belief that unions contribute to the common good-and use regression analysis to determine its impact on public support for unions and on workers' likelihood of supporting a union in a representation election in their workplace. Results show that the public's support for unions is stronger when the public believes that unions act in the…
Lay Activism and Activism Intentions in a Faculty Union: An Exploratory Study
Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism’s antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, thus providing considerable diversity in work settings within a single employer organization. Using survey and archival data, this study explores the role of selected contextual factors on faculty labor activism. A tentative but …
Union Characteristics and Bargaining Outcomes
This paper investigates the impact of union militancy, size, centralization, and democracy on wages, fringe benefits, and other bargaining outcomes. Using data on bargaining outcomes at the bargaining unit level in conjunction with data on comparative union characteristics, the authors find strong evidence that union characteristics affect bargaining outcomes. Determining the exact nature of those effects is complicated by several problems-notabl…
Market and Nonmarket Influences on Curriculum Choice by College Students
Many labor economists and other researchers have attempted to develop models of the workings of the market for college-trained manpower. This paper reviews this previous research on curriculum choice and then tests an alternative model with data on choices made by male baccalaureates across a wide spectrum of science and engineering curricula. The influence of both methodology and the analytical framework on the identification of relevant variabl…
The School-to-Work Transition of College Graduates
This study investigates the relationship between curriculum choice and occupational choice. The lag between curriculum choice and degree attainment generally ensures a mismatch between new labor supply and employer requirements, even if students are quite responsive to labor market conditions. The author hypothesizes that adjustment to that lag is primarily a function of market conditions and the technical compatibility of possible combinations o…
Market and Nonmarket Influences on Curriculum Choice by College Students
Many labor economists and other researchers have attempted to develop models of the workings of the market for college-trained manpower. This paper reviews this previous research on curriculum choice and then tests an alternative model with data on choices made by male baccalaureates across a wide spectrum of science and engineering curricula. The influence of both methodology and the analytical framework on the identification of relevant variabl…
The Effect of Union Characteristics on the Outcome of NLRB Certification Elections
This paper examines the determinants of National Labor Relations Board certification election outcomes in individual election units between 1972 and 1980. Particular emphasis is given to the role of national union characteristics in determining union success or failure. The authors find that union success in organizing both blue- and white-collar workers is influenced positively by union size and internal democracy and negatively by strike activi…
Union Characteristics and Bargaining Outcomes
This paper investigates the impact of union militancy, size, centralization, and democracy on wages, fringe benefits, and other bargaining outcomes. Using data on bargaining outcomes at the bargaining unit level in conjunction with data on comparative union characteristics, the authors find strong evidence that union characteristics affect bargaining outcomes. Determining the exact nature of those effects is complicated by several problems-notabl…
The Effects of Union Organizational and Environmental Characteristics on Union Political Action
It is well known that organized labor is politically active. Few studies, however, have examined labor's political activities or assessed the extent of interunion differences in political action. This study partially fills these research gaps by empirically analyzing the involvement of individual unions in electoral and legislative activities over the years 1978-82. The results suggest that union-specific characteristics influence union political…
Satisfaction with Union Representation
This study develops and empirically tests a model of satisfaction with union representation using national data from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey. Overall union satisfaction is specified as a function of union members' expectations concerning union efforts and the perceived outcomes of union performance on (1) bread and butter issues (such as wages and benefits), (2) quality of work issues (such as job interest and workers' voice in the …
Associate Membership: Unionism or Consumerism
Analyzing data from the Union Image Survey (a 1984 Harris poll examining workers' attitudes toward various forms of employee organization), the authors compare the motives and characteristics of workers who expressed a desire to join an associate membership program with those of workers who indicated a readiness to vote for traditional union representation. The results confirm the hypothesis that workers' interest in the types of consumer benefit…
Union Participation in Japan: Do Western Theories Apply
This study investigates the validity in Japan of union participation models developed in North America. The results of ordinary least squares analysis suggest that members' participation in unions is positively related to many of the same factors in Japan as in North America: for example, length of union membership, pay, dissatisfaction regarding pay and working conditions, degree of interaction with others in the work group, and perceptions of t…
The State of the Unions
National Union Effectiveness in Organizing: Measures and Influences
The percentage of the U.S. work force that is unionized is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. Although many studies have sought the reasons for this decline, few have investigated characteristics of unions themselves as possible factors. This paper focuses on unions as organizations, and applies a model of national union effectiveness to union organizing. The authors propose a composite measure of organizing effectiveness that goes beyond…
Planning for Change: Determinants of Innovation in U.S. National Unions
Although it is commonly argued that unions need to innovate in order to grow and achieve success, little is known about the characteristics of unions that facilitate or hinder innovation. The authors of this study develop a model of union innovation and test it using data collected from many sources, including a 1990 survey of 275 officials and staff members from 111 American national unions. The results suggest that certain union characteristics…
Unions and Information Technology: From Luddites to Cyberunions
Survey data are used to examine the use of, and views about, infor mation technology (IT) among U.S. national unions. Usable responses were received from nearly two-thirds of such unions. In addition to de scriptive information regarding IT use in national unions, this paper ten tatively explores both the causes and consequences of IT use. While IT use of some sort is found to be nearly universal, there is considerable variation across unions in …
Union Renewal and the Organizing Model in the United Kingdom
This paper summarizes research that focuses on the process of "union renewal" currently underway in many unions. The research is based on survey responses and interviews involving United Kingdom (U.K.) union officers and staff and uses information gathered dur ing late 2000 and early 2001. This paper also addresses the related issue of "organizing model" adoption in the United Kingdom. Most U.K. unionists see organizing the unorganized as a criti…
Information and communications technology use in British unions
Purpose Aims to review British labour union leaders’ views on the use and importance of information and communications technology (ICT) within their unions. Design/methodology/approach An open‐ended e‐mail survey and personal interviews conducted in 2000‐2001 with union leaders provides the primary original data for this research. Responses are content analysed to assess the importance leaders assign to ICT for unions, to review the ways in which…
Renewal in the United Faculty of Florida: Class War in Paradise
This paper reviews faculty union developments in Florida public universities during 2000-2005, a tumultuous period in which the statewide university governance board was abolished and governance was devolved to university-level boards. The Jeb Bush Administration used devolution to eliminate bargaining for thousands of faculty at eleven universities. Using a case study format and participant-observer perspective, we emphasize the perspective of k…
The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations
Lay Activism and Activism Intentions in a Faculty Union: An Exploratory Study
Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism’s antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, thus providing considerable diversity in work settings within a single employer organization. Using survey and archival data, this study explores the role of selected contextual factors on faculty labor activism. A tentative but …
The backward march of labour halted? Or, what is to be done with 'union organising'? The cases of Britain and the USA
This article evaluates the phenomenon and dynamics of union organising. It neither presents a critique of variants of union organising nor a preferred version of union organising as the solution. Rather, it provides some of the intellectual resources needed to create theoretically informed practice. It examines critiques of union organising to foreground discussion of the two key hallmarks of union organising to date; namely, officer domination a…
Employment Relations
This article describes employment relations (also known as “industrial relations”). Employment relations is a field of study and practice focused on the interactions between workers and employers to establish terms and conditions of employment at the workplace and in the broader society. Government often plays an important role in these matters, as do organizations of workers and employers. Changing terminology and related subjects are discussed,…
Precarious Work, Young Workers, and Union-Related Attitudes: Distrust of Employers, Workplace Collective Efficacy, and Union Efficacy
This study examined the effects of precarious work characteristics on U.S. workers’ attitudes about three union-related issues using the 2009 Young Worker Survey. Union-related criteria included distrust in employers to treat employees fairly, collective efficacy (rather than individual) in solving workplace problems, and union efficacy in terms of whether union members are better off (or worse off) than nonunion workers. The results suggest that…
What Do Workers and the Public Want? Unions' Social Value
Using data from a national sample of American workers, the authors develop measures for "prosocial unionism"-the belief that unions contribute to the common good-and use regression analysis to determine its impact on public support for unions and on workers' likelihood of supporting a union in a representation election in their workplace. Results show that the public's support for unions is stronger when the public believes that unions act in the…
C’est pareil mais différent: A comparison of union support in France and the U.S
Although research has shown that support for United States (U.S.) unions centers on improving members’ working conditions, recent investigation suggests unions’ roles in helping all working people and addressing broader societal issues also deserve attention. Outside the U.S., research has long supported the importance of the latter, prosocial roles. This paper draws on prior research to develop a conceptual model outlining the basis for worker s…
Labor Movements and Unions (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Economics (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Labour economics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Politics (6 works)