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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"union decline"”.
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Globalization, Labor Market Transformation, and Union Decline in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
… of total, private, and public sector union density among 191 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas in the year 2000. In particular, I examine the effects of five measures of globalization (global capital, foreign direct investment, exports, foreign-born citizens, and foreign-born …
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An Historical Analysis of the Organized Labor Movement's Influence on Corporate Public Relations Theory and Practice
… through three phases: The roots of American unionism and public relations from 1850-1918, the influence of the legislation of organized labor from 1918-1953, and the effects of union decline from 1953-1980s. The method adopted to support this contention is the juxtaposition of an historical …
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Labor Law and the State: The Crises of Unions in the 1980s
… played by political factors in the widespread union crises that occurred in many Western capitalist democracies during the 1980s. Specifically examined are the effects of state labor law policies on union strike effectiveness in Great Britain and the United States. Three case studies of union …
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Essays on institutions and earnings inequality
… imply that institutional changes (mainly trade union decline) can account for a substantial part of the rise of skill premiums since the 1970s (Chapter 4). Finally, Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 compare the real wage flexibility in the UK with Italy and Germany, which have centralized collective …
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Trade Union Organisers in Trade Union Organising Strategies: building workplace unionism or reinforcing bureaucracy
This thesis considers the role of union full time officers in union organising strategies. Two decades of promoting union organising influenced by models developed by the AFL-CIO, has failed to arrest the decline of UK trade unions let alone produce evidence of renewal. Focusing mainly on one …
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Between adaptation and resistance : labor responses to globalization in France
… First, organizational failure, illustrated by union decline, implied a critical juncture that fed intraorganizational struggles and opened the way for a reorientation of labor organizations. Second, once the crisis was acknowledged, whether organizations would take the path to adaptation or …