In almost every country where coal is mined, labor protest among the workers in this industry has been frequent and intense in comparison with industrial workers generally. Yet, as this article demonstrates, there are significantly wide differences between countries in the strike propensity of...

As our knowledge of social institutions in the Soviet Union advances with the expansion of cultural and educational exchange between East and West, it is becoming evident that trade unions in that country play a much more significant role than was often attributed to them. One of the areas in...