Contents
Preface
1. The Character of American Unions
2. Historical Sketch
3. The Present Extent of Union Organization
4. The Structure of Unions
5. Why Workers Join Unions
6. Collective Bargaining
1. The Strike
2. Government Intervention in Strikes
3. Wildcat Strikes and Slowdowns
4. Consumer Boycotts and Union Labels
5. Secondary Boycotts
6. Control of the Labor Supply
1. The Meaning of Wage Policy
2. Wage Goals
3. The Demand for Union Labor
4. Models of Union Wage Policy
5. Pressures on Wage Decisions
6. Wage Policy When Employment Is Rising
7. Wage Policy When Employment Is Falling
8. Wage Policy toward Individual Firms
9. Wage Structure
10. Methods of Wage Payment
11. Fringe Benefits
1. Predictions from Economic Theory
2. Measuring the Impact of the Union: Methods
3. Measuring the Impact of the Union: Results
4. Noneconomic Limits on Union Impact
5. The Relation between Union Impact and Market Structure
6. Relative Wages and Resource Allocation
7. The Union Influence on Labor's Share
8. The Union Influence on the Size Distribution of Income
1. The Hypothesis of the Wage-Price Spiral
2. Unions and the Level of Costs
3. The Transmission of Union Wage Gains
4. Wage-Price Relations
5. The Direct Union Influence on Monetary Policy
6. Wage and Price Levels during Recessions
7. Escalator Clauses
8. The Annual Improvement Factor
1. Union Control of Job Opportunities
2. Apprenticeship
3. The Closed Shop
4. Entry to the Union
5. The Union Shop
6. Legal Restrictions on the Union Shop
1. Working Rules That Seek to Increase the Number Employed
2. Negotiating Changes in Working Rules
3. Restriction of Output
4. Positive Union Effects on Productivity
5. Protecting and Expanding the Union's Jurisdiction
7. Hours of Work
8. Guarantees of Work to the Individual
1. The Uses of Seniority
2. The Reasons for Seniority
3. The Seniority Unit
4. Seniority and Efficiency
5. Seniority and Mobility
1. The Changed Status of the Industrial Worker
2. Types of Grievance Procedures
3. The Arbitration of Grievances
4. The Well-Functioning Grievance Procedure
5. Shortcomings in Grievance Procedures
1. The General Nature of Union Government
2. Participation in Unions
3. Relations between National and Local Unions
4. The Union Officer and His Staff
5. Opposition within Trade Unions
6. An Evaluation of Union Government
7. Political Action by Unions
1. Background
2. The Relation between Economic Power and Corruption
3. Dealing with Corruption
1. The Growth of Public-Sector Unions
2. Strikes in the Public Sector
3. The Effect of Public Employee Unions on Earnings
1. Evidence of the Decline
2. Causes of the Decline
1. The Role of the Union in American Society
2. The Future Growth of Unions
Index