The union's interest in politics and government stems from precisely the same motives and compulsions which characterize its other activities. Naturally the expression which these motives take is suited to the peculiar medium of politics and government as a way of achieving union purposes....

The major focus of this exploratory formulation of union interest in apprenticeship and other forms of training is on three main environments: craft union apprenticeships, the concern of industrial unions with training concurrent with employment, and the labor movement's social policy interests...

This article is concerned with the extent to which the apprenticeship program responds to short-run changes in the U.S. economy. Mr. Farber shows that the number of new apprenticeship registrants varies inversely with the level of unemployment in the economy as a whole. The apprentice-completion...