Union-Management Cooperation in the United States

Lessons from the 1920S

Bibliographic Data

ID3335274
AuthorsSanford M Jacoby (corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume37
Issue1
Pages18
Publication date1983-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2522721
OpenAlexW4249823581
LanguageEN
Citations received13

This paper presents an analysis of several experiments in union-management cooperation that took place during the 1920s. The author examines the economic and social factors that influenced the formation, operation, and decline of these experiments. Although observers at that time hoped that union-management cooperation would be widely adopted, it extended only to industries suffering from declining markets for union-made products and failed to survive the Great Depression. When the author compares these early experiments to current cooperative endeavors, he concludes that unions and employers will voluntarily work together to improve productivity only within an intermediate range of economic stress

Business · Depression (economics) · Economic growth · Economics · International trade · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Political science · Productivity · Work (physics) · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Engineering · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Transport and Economic Policies

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