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Methods for Studying Union Effects: A Review and Comparative Analysis of Empirical Industrial Relations Literature

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 205-231, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reviews methodological developments in Industrial Relations (IR) research on union effects from 1990 to 2023, based on 511 studies in six leading IR journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. We find that institutional contexts shape methodological choices over time and note a general shift from ...
Kwon Hee Han   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participating in Management: Union Organizing on a New Terrain [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
[Excerpt] Seasoned organizers know that all organizing begins one-on-one at your base. The workplace is labor\u27s base and, therefore, the key to the labor movement meeting its many challenges in the 1990s — among them, building stronger worker-to ...
Banks, Andy, Metzgar, Jack
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Building Legitimacy in the UK Platform Economy: Representative Strategies of Independent and Mainstream Trade Unions

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 232-243, May 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper we explore the representative strategies of different trade unions within the UK platform economy, and the efforts to build legitimacy among a disparate workforce. Using data from multiple in‐depth research projects, we find that independent unions and self‐organised groups are competing to build representative claims from the ...
Mathew Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
[Excerpt] What might the striking convergence in the trajectories of the South Korean and U.S. labor movements mean for the dynamics of change taking place for labor on a global scale?
Chun, Jennifer Jihye
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The Open Shop, Closed Shop, Agency Shop, and Union Default in Comparative Perspective: Members, Resources, and Individual Autonomy

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 244-253, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Strategies designed to revive the declining union movement require new resources and new members for success. For this, many unions often used closed or agency shops. We compare these with the now dominant open shop as well as the union default.
Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall
wiley   +1 more source

THE AUTHORS REPLY. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Epidemiol, 2021
Eisenberg-Guyot J   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 1124-1154, May 2026.
Abstract Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to cooperative firms, characterized by worker ownership and management, as a way for organizations to address the economic, societal and environmental problems posed by corporate capitalism. This renewed interest stems from the potential of cooperatives to foster an alternative economic system ...
Jon Las Heras   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Reconsideration of the Effects of Unionism on Relative Wages and Employment in the United States, 1920-80 [PDF]

open access: yes
H. Gregg Lewis' estimates of the relative wage effect of unionism between 1920 and 1958 are routinely cited though they have rarely been subject to scrutiny.
Catherine E. Hartsog, John H. Pencavel
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