![]() | What Unions No Longer Do Subjects: Labor movement -- United States; Income distribution -- United States; Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States; Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions; From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in ten, and just one in twenty in the private sector--the lowest in a century. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. While many studies have attempted to explain the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do lays bare the broad repercussions of labor's collapse for the American economy and polity. Rosenfeld Jake : Jake Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. |
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