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Richard Freeman and James Medoff have asserted that labor unions have two “faces,” a “good” face and a “bad” face. This contribution critically examines their arguments to expose serious flaws in their conceptual analysis.
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Hutt, W.H. The face and mask of unionism. Journal of Labor Research 4, 197–211 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02685206
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