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Trade Union Growth and Decline: An International Study

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Trade Union Growth and Decline: An International Study

Contributors:

By (Author) Walter Galenson

ISBN:

9780275943257

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Praeger Publishers Inc

Publication Date:

14th June 1994

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

331.8809

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

176

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 235mm

Weight:

454g

Description

After a century of growth, trade union membership and influence have begun to decline in most of the economically advanced countries. This comprehensive analysis of membership trends covers developing as well as industrialized countries. The author's thesis is that the unions have failed to pay sufficient attention to the concerns of a labor force that is more educated, with a higher participation of women, and with a greater concern for job security than was true in the past.

Reviews

.,."his findings merit the attention of anyone interested in the future of unions in the United States and other nations."-Monthly Labor Review
...his findings merit the attention of anyone interested in the future of unions in the United States and other nations.-Monthly Labor Review
Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections.-Choice
Trade Union Growth and Decline explores likely union futures and their possible causes well. In particular, the nation-by-nation discussion of potential explanatory factors will prove valuable to students of labor unions of every disciplinary, theoretical, and ideological slant. The general forecast--of union decline in all developed nations but those where unions have been strongest, and of union growth principally in the most rapidly growing developing nations--is a basic message for our age, with major implications for citizens' prospective collective action and governmental provisions of public goods. The book should serve as the primer of choice on its important topic.- Macros
..."his findings merit the attention of anyone interested in the future of unions in the United States and other nations."-Monthly Labor Review
"Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections."-Choice
"Trade Union Growth and Decline explores likely union futures and their possible causes well. In particular, the nation-by-nation discussion of potential explanatory factors will prove valuable to students of labor unions of every disciplinary, theoretical, and ideological slant. The general forecast--of union decline in all developed nations but those where unions have been strongest, and of union growth principally in the most rapidly growing developing nations--is a basic message for our age, with major implications for citizens' prospective collective action and governmental provisions of public goods. The book should serve as the primer of choice on its important topic."- Macros

Author Bio

WALTER GALENSON is Jacob Schurman Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, where he presently teaches in the graduate program in New York City./e He has authored 39 articles and 13 books, and edited 9 other books on economics and related subjects.

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