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Seymour Martin Lipset is Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Sociology and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has served as president of the American Political Science Association, the International Society of Political Psychology, and the Sociological Research Association. His recent books include Consensus and Conflictand, with William Schneider. The Confidence Gap.This article is adapted from his edited book. Unions in Transition: Entering the Second Century,which is published by the Institute for Contemporary Studies Press.
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Lipset, S.M. Comparing Canadian and American unions. Society 24, 60–70 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695825
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