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Title: Industrial Feudalism Reconsidered: The Effects of Unionization on Labor Mobility
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1. D'Amico, Ronald
Industrial Feudalism Reconsidered: The Effects of Unionization on Labor Mobility
Work and Occupations 11,4 (November 1984): 407-437.
Also: http://wox.sagepub.com/content/11/4/407.abstract
Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Blue-Collar Jobs; Employment; Mobility; Occupational Attainment; Unions; White Collar Jobs; Work History

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In recent years, sociologists have increasingly investigated the ways in which institutional or organizational features of the labor market constrain workers' mobility patterns throughout the economy. Building on this work, this article analyzes union effects on patterns of job mobility. It finds that the union effects vary by type of union and by type of job change, with industrial unions promoting the incidence of intrafirm occupation changes and craft unions decreasing the incidence of interoccupation moves. Apparently, unions operate to lend coherence and stability to careers by binding their members more closely to organizational and occupational structures.
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D'Amico, Ronald. "Industrial Feudalism Reconsidered: The Effects of Unionization on Labor Mobility." Work and Occupations 11,4 (November 1984): 407-437.