Today's Associations, Tomorrow's Unions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3379566 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Casey Ichniowski, Jeffrey S Zax |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-208 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001979399004300202 |
| OpenAlex | W2077860337 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper investigates the effects of association-style unionism on union membership. In a 1984 Harris poll examining workers' attitudes toward various forms of employee organization, nearly half of all nonunion workers indicated they would join an association, but most of these potential association members said they would not vote for a union to serve as a bargaining agent. Analysis of census data on local government departments strongly suggests, however, that the substitution away from traditional bargaining representation attributable to associations would be followed by an increase in the membership of traditional unions. Specifically, the authors find that in all local government services, the presence of an association in 1977 was a strong predictor of the formation of a bargaining unit by 1982—holding constant other important determinants of public employee unionism, including the legal environment
Association (psychology) · Census · Collective bargaining · Demographic economics · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Labour economics · Local government · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Unit (ring theory) · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Demography · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The Transformation of American Industrial Relations
The Impact of the Percentage Organized on Union and Nonunion Wages
The Attitudes of Union and Nonunion Male Workers toward Union Representation
Contraction and Expansion
Bargaining Laws as a Cause and Consequence of the Growth of Teacher Unionism
Union Membership in the United States, 1973-1981
Bargaining Laws and Unionization in the Local Public Sector
Determinants of the Outcomes of Union Certification Elections
Accounting for the Decline in Union Membership, 1950-1980
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 1998 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |