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The Economics of Trade Unions: New Directions

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Jean-Jacques Rosa

    1. Fondation Nationale d’Economie Politique, Paris, France

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Unions, Wages, Strikes, and Productivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Changes over Time in the Union-Nonunion Wage Differential in the United States

      • George E. Johnson
      Pages 3-25

    3. Strike Cost and Wage Rates

      • Melvin W. Reder
      Pages 27-41

    4. Cyclical Strike Activity and Mature Collective Bargaining

      • George R. Neumann
      Pages 43-62

    5. The Relative Wage Effect of French Unions

      • Jean-François Hennart
      Pages 63-81

    6. Trade Unions and Restrictive Practices

      • John T. Addison
      Pages 83-119

  3. The Nature of Unions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Economic Analysis of the Trade Union as a Political Institution

      • John Burton
      Pages 123-155

    3. Toward a Theory of the Union Firm

      • Jean-Jacques Rosa
      Pages 157-189

    4. The Agency Problem in a Nonproprietary Theory of Union Behavior

      • Donald L. Martin
      Pages 191-220

    5. The Empirical Performance of a Model of Trade Union Behavior

      • John H. Pencavel
      Pages 221-276

    6. The Determinants of Union Staff Salaries

      • Bernard Lentz
      Pages 277-311

  4. Perspectives for Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 313-313
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    2. Unions: Economic Performance and Labor Market Structure

      • Peter B. Doeringer
      Pages 315-338

    3. Union Membership and Union Management

      • Leo Troy, Neil Sheflin
      Pages 339-352

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 353-353
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About this book

The crisis in trade unionism is now a prevailing concern in the United States, as well as in Europe. Its main symptom is, of course, the decrease in union membership. Still, other, less observable elements account for the concern, namely the obsolescence of discourse, the decrease of militant motivation, and the question of efficiency of strikes or collective bargaining. One must keep in mind, however, that trade unions will evolve differently from one country to another. What we know about trade unions has changed over the years. We can now more accurately assess the effects of union action, especially with regard to labor market, wages, and productivity. This book adds to the assessment by integrating the new theories of organizations, contracts, and property rights. In doing so, we shift from a study of markets to one of hierarchies. Thus, the current literature comes back to its sources (but with improved analytical instruments) by returning to the Ross-Dunlop debate on the nature of the trade union. This more complex outlook of trade unions as an organization-not only as an abstract or bodyless supplier of monopolistic labor-allows one to understand better the apparent differences between unions (mainly American) whose action is oriented towards work relation­ ships and labor contract management and unions (European or "Latin") who are closer to a pressure group wielding power on the political front.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fondation Nationale d’Economie Politique, Paris, France

    Jean-Jacques Rosa

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Economics of Trade Unions: New Directions

  • Editors: Jean-Jacques Rosa

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1371-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-1373-3Published: 13 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1371-9Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 353

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Science, Labor Economics

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