Racial Diversity and Union Organizing in the United States, 1999-2008
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4573167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John-Paul Ferguson (John-Paul Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University.), John‐paul Ferguson (0000-0001-6661-6199, Ferguson Library, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-83 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0019793915602253 |
| OpenAlex | W2247209136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 82 |
Does racial diversity make forming a union harder? Case studies offer conflicting answers, and little large-scale research on the question exists. Most quantitative research on race and unionization has studied trends in membership rather than the outcome of specific organizing drives and has assumed that the main problem is mistrust between workers and unions, paying less attention, for example, to the role of employers. The author explores the role of racial and ethnic diversity in the outcomes of nearly 7,000 organizing drives launched between 1999 and 2008. By matching the National Labor Relations Board's information on union activity with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's surveys of large establishments, the author reconstructs the demographic composition of the work groups involved in each mobilization. The study finds that more diverse establishments are less likely to see successful organizing attempts. Little evidence is found, however, that this is because workers are less interested in voting for unions. Instead, the organizers of more diverse units are more likely to give up before such elections are held. Furthermore, this higher quit rate can be explained best by considering the other organizations involved in the organizing drive. In particular, employers are more likely to be charged with unfair labor practices when the unit in question is more racially diverse. This effect persists when the study controls for heterogeneity among industries, unions, and regions
Commission · Demographic economics · Diversity (politics) · Economics · Equal employment opportunity · Ethnic group · Geography · Labour economics · Matching (statistics) · Political science · Public relations · Race (biology) · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Unit (ring theory) · Voting · Work (physics) · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology
The political nature of union locals
The effect of migration on unionization in Austria
Impacts of racial diversity and firm size on union voting behavior in Alabama
Opening the Ballot Box
Labour immigration and union strength
Labor Unions and White Racial Politics
Firm Turnover and the Return of Racial Establishment Segregation
Confronting Race and Other Social Identity Erasures
The Disciplining Effect of Mass Incarceration on Labor Organization
Industrial relations systems.
The Transformation of American Industrial Relations
The strategy of social protest
Inventing Equal Opportunity
The Next Upsurge
Capital Moves
What Unions No Longer Do
Hard Work
Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
Another City Is Possible
Social Movements and Organization Theory
Divided We Stand
Making a New Deal
Work Group Diversity
The Logic of Collective Action
Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility
Predicting the Outcome of Union Certification Elections
Antecedents of union loyalty
The Role of Labor Education in Transforming a Union Toward Organizing Immigrants
Gender at Work
The Challenge of Restructuring
We Shall Not Overcome
Divided We Stand
The Crisis of American Labor
American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985
The Crisis of American Labor
Union Membership and Coverage Database from the Current Population Survey
Race, Multiculturalism, and Labour Organizing in the United States
Velvet Glove, Iron Fist, or Even Hand? Protest Policing in the United States, 1960-1990
The Problem of Race in American Labor History
Protesting While Black
Documenting Desegregation
Sifting and Sorting
Union Challenge to Management Control
The Union Challenge to Management Control
Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007
Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies
The Politics of Union Decline
Protest under Fire? Explaining the Policing of Protest
The Local Union
The Union & Its Members
The Eyes of the Needles
How to Take a Case before the NLRB
Employer Behavior in the Face of Union Organizing Drives
The New Deal, Collective Bargaining, and the Triumph of Industrial Pluralism
The Local Union
Union Certification Success under Voting versus Card-Check Procedures
Union Success in Representation Elections
Unionization among Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Winning Woman Suffrage One Step at a Time
Factors Influencing Member Participation in Trade Union Activities
Resources for Success
The Impact of Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Social Movement Organizations on Public Policy
The Racialized Picket Line
Stalled Progress
Studying Race or Ethnic and Sex Segregation at the Establishment Level
The Decline of Industrial Unionism in the Meatpacking Industry
Racial Measurement in the American Census
Measuring Latinos
Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States
The Institutional Logic of Union Organizing and the Effectiveness of Social Movement Repertoires
Takin' It from the Streets
The Stages of the Policy Process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982
Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy
Political Culture Wars 1960s Style
Labor Unrest, Immigration, and Ethnic Conflict in Urban America, 1880-1914
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |