The organization of technical, professional, and other white-collar employees is among the most difficult problems currently confronting the labor movement, and also poses intriguing questions for students of industrial relations. The present study describes recent experiences of unions of...

The market structure of building construction makes the industry unique in the business scene. As a result, so too is the role of the principal union official in the building trades--the business agent. This study, based on first-hand observation of the business agent at work, describes his...

In the October 1952 issue of the "Review," the authors of this article discussed the factors influencing membership participation in the local union. Here they examine the functions and problems of the local union meeting, particularly its effectiveness as a device for democratic participation...

Studies the patterns of participation in local unions. Involvement in union voting; Measurement of the expenditure of time on union affairs; Variation in department participation in union activities. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

This study analyzes the consent decree of 1974 that reformed plant seniority systems in basic steel to resolve problems of equal employment opportunity. The author argues that the major factors leading to the negotiation of this industrywide decree were the large number of plant-level suits...

This study estimates the effects of unionism on the compensation of firefighters through regression analysis of cross-section data for over 1,000 cities and for pay before and after the advent of formal bargaining in 300 to 500 cities. The author concludes that there is a greater union effect on...

This study develops and tests a production function that includes a plant's grievance filing rate as a determinant of productivity. Application of that function to data on nine unionized paper mills for 1976-82 shows that the more grievances that were filed in a mill, the lower that mill's...

This paper uses longitudinal data provided by a large unionized grocery store chain to examine the relationship between profitability and compensation adjustments between 1976 and 1985. Consistent with the predictions of a Nash bargaining model, negotiated compensation adjustments were inversely...

This study explores the strengths and weaknesses of economic reasoning in explaining, and suggesting remedies for, the stubborn presence of racketeering in New York City construction. In this industry, the authors argue, transactions cannot be conducted efficiently either between a large number...