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The Growth of Trade Union Power

In: The Theory of Wages

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  • J. R. Hicks

    (University of Oxford)

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Since the publication of Mr. and Mrs. Webb’s great history in 1894, much has been written on the development of the English Trade Unions. But it is the social and political aspects of this evolution which have been most thoroughly examined; the economic aspects have been much less adequately treated. The economist, seeking an answer to the most fundamental economic problems of Union development, can get little help from the historical literature, and is largely left to his own devices. To him the most important question is not any of those which have been so exhaustively studied, but rather the determination of the extent to which, at different periods, the Trade Unions have been able to affect wages. And to this economic historians, with their eyes fixed on the qualitative rather than quantitative differences between competitive and collective wage-fixing, have rarely attempted to give an answer.

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  • J. R. Hicks, 1963. "The Growth of Trade Union Power," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Theory of Wages, chapter 0, pages 159-178, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-00189-7_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-00189-7_8
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