Trade Union Growth and Decline - (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing) by Walter Galenson (Hardcover)

About the Book

After a century of growth, trade union membership and influence have begun to decline in most of the economically advanced countries. This comprehensive analysis of membership trends covers developing as well as industrialized countries. The author's thesis is that the unions have failed to pay sufficient attention to the concerns of a labor force that is more educated, with a higher participation of women, and with a greater concern for job security than was true in the past.

Book Synopsis

After a century of growth, trade union membership and influence have begun to decline in most of the economically advanced countries. This comprehensive analysis of membership trends covers developing as well as industrialized countries. The author's thesis is that the unions have failed to pay sufficient attention to the concerns of a labor force that is more educated, with a higher participation of women, and with a greater concern for job security than was true in the past.

Review Quotes

.,."his findings merit the attention of anyone interested in the future of unions in the United States and other nations."-Monthly Labor Review

?...his findings merit the attention of anyone interested in the future of unions in the United States and other nations.?-Monthly Labor Review

?Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections.?-Choice

?Trade Union Growth and Decline explores likely union futures and their possible causes well. In particular, the nation-by-nation discussion of potential explanatory factors will prove valuable to students of labor unions of every disciplinary, theoretical, and ideological slant. The general forecast--of union decline in all developed nations but those where unions have been strongest, and of union growth principally in the most rapidly growing developing nations--is a basic message for our age, with major implications for citizens' prospective collective action and governmental provisions of public goods. The book should serve as the primer of choice on its important topic.?- Macros

..."his findings merit the attention of anyone interested in the future of unions in the United States and other nations."-Monthly Labor Review

"Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections."-Choice

"Trade Union Growth and Decline explores likely union futures and their possible causes well. In particular, the nation-by-nation discussion of potential explanatory factors will prove valuable to students of labor unions of every disciplinary, theoretical, and ideological slant. The general forecast--of union decline in all developed nations but those where unions have been strongest, and of union growth principally in the most rapidly growing developing nations--is a basic message for our age, with major implications for citizens' prospective collective action and governmental provisions of public goods. The book should serve as the primer of choice on its important topic."- Macros

About the Author

WALTER GALENSON is Jacob Schurman Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, where he presently teaches in the graduate program in New York City./e He has authored 39 articles and 13 books, and edited 9 other books on economics and related subjects.