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Prospects for Union Growth in the United States in the Early 21st Century

In: Unions in the 21st Century

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  • Bruce E. Kaufman

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At we progress into a new century it seems particularly appropriate to ponder on the future of one of America’s most important social and economic institutions – the organised labour movement. Recent years have been hard on American unions. Union density has suffered a slow but cumulatively significant decline, falling from 34 per cent in the mid-1950s to 13 per cent today. In the U.S. private sector, where the great bulk of jobs are, union density has fallen even lower (9%). Certainly the old century did not end, and the new century begin, on a very auspicious note when the New York Times (January 21, 2001: 18), in reporting on the Department of Labour’s survey of union membership, led off the article with this title: ‘Unions Hit Lowest Point in Six Decades’.

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  • Bruce E. Kaufman, 2004. "Prospects for Union Growth in the United States in the Early 21st Century," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anil Verma & Thomas A. Kochan (ed.), Unions in the 21st Century, chapter 4, pages 44-60, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52458-3_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230524583_4
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    Cited by:

    1. Laroche, Patrice, 2020. "Unions, Collective Bargaining and Firm Performance," GLO Discussion Paper Series 728, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    2. Michele Campolieti & Rafael Gomez & Morley Gunderson, 2013. "Managerial Hostility and Attitudes Towards Unions: A Canada-US Comparison," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 34(1), pages 99-119, March.

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