Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections.Choice
Review
...his findings merit the attention of anyone interested in the future of unions in the United States and other nations.Monthly Labor Review
Review
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
Synopsis
Union membership in most economically advanced countries has declined after a century of growth for several reasons.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-161) and index.
About the Author
WALTER GALENSON is Jacob Schurman Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, where he presently teaches in the graduate program in New York City.