The Future of Private Sector Unions in the U.S

This paper argues that a revival of traditional American values that are more libertarian and individualistic. i.e., much less social-democratic, than in Europe and Canada, have weakened organized labor. During the years of its greatest growth in the private sector, those of the New Deal, the war an...

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Published inJournal of labor research Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 229 - 244
Main Authors Katchanovski, Ivan, Lipset, Seymour Martin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Transaction Publishers 01.04.2001
Transaction Publishers, Inc
Springer Nature B.V
SeriesJournal of Labor Research
Subjects
Effects
Employment Changes
Forecasts and trends
Labor movement
Labor Movements
Labor unions
Libertarianism
Political parties
Private Sector
Regression analysis
Unionization
Unions
United States of America
United States
United States > US
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Summary:This paper argues that a revival of traditional American values that are more libertarian and individualistic. i.e., much less social-democratic, than in Europe and Canada, have weakened organized labor. During the years of its greatest growth in the private sector, those of the New Deal, the war and immediate post-war periods, social-democratic values, though still weaker than in Europe and Austrasia, were much stronger than in the American past. But the economic improvements in successive post-war periods have refurbished the classic American libertarian and market-oriented values, thereby also weakening potential union sentiment.
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ISSN:0195-3613
1936-4768
DOI:10.1007/s12122-001-1031-x