Unions in Decline? What Has Changed and Why
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Wallerstein (Northwestern University), B Western (0000-0001-8615-6767, Princeton University) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 355-377 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.polisci.3.1.355 |
| OpenAlex | W2112535390 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
| References cited | 62 |
Between 1950 and 1980, labor markets grew increasingly organized in advanced industrial societies. Union membership in most countries expanded more rapidly than the labor force, centralized wage setting became more common, and union members became increasingly concentrated in a small number of large unions. Between 1980 and 1992, however, union density fell on average, and centralized wage setting grew increasingly rare. Only union concentration continued to increase in the 1980s. Existing theories of union organization and collective bargaining institutions are largely successful in explaining both the trends over time and much of the cross-national variation from 1950 to 1980, but they fail to account for the dramatic declines in union strength that some (but not all) countries have experienced since 1980
Collective bargaining · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Fell · Geography · Labour economics · Political science · Trade union · Union density · Wage · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 65 |
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| Citations per year | 2,6 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |