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Title: Workplace Hazards and Workers' Desires for Union Representation
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Robinson, James C. |
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Workplace Hazards and Workers' Desires for Union Representation Journal of Labor Research 9,3 (September 1988): 237-249. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/7g06860617243056/ Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: John M. Olin Institute at George Mason University Keyword(s): Job Hazards; Unions; Work Attitudes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Recent economic studies have interpreted labor unions as facilitating the expression of collective worker "voice" as a complement to individual voice and exit strategies that can be adopted by workers acting alone. The influence of job characteristics on worker desires for union representation is examined using 3 data sets that contain explicit information on preferences. Since several sample selection and variable measurement issues have plagued previous studies, this study uses the union and nonunion samples of the 1978 Young Men's National Longitudinal Survey, and the 1980 Young Women's National Longitudinal Survey. Consistent with the union voice hypothesis, results indicate that workers expressing pro-union sentiments are much more likely than anti-union workers to be employed in jobs with hazardous or otherwise disagreeable working conditions. Finally, Farber (1983) and Freeman (1986) find that the market for union jobs is constrained by management resistance to organizing campaigns. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Robinson, James C. "Workplace Hazards and Workers' Desires for Union Representation." Journal of Labor Research 9,3 (September 1988): 237-249.
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