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& Medoff, What Do Unions by Teresa Ghilarducci
He also noted that white strikers killed ten black firemen in 1911 because the New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad had granted them equal seniority. Although labor unions have been celebrated in folk songs and stories as fearless champions of the downtrodden working man, this is not how economists see them. Because labor is the most versatile and flexible input, it is much harder for owners of large fixed-capital investments to exploit labor than for labor unions to exploit business investors. The wage premium varies by industry and stage of the business cycle. What Do Unions Do, New York: Basic Books, pp. Increased wage premiums also caused declines in union employment in construction, manufacturing, and communications.
What have been the economic consequences of unions? National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015. Freeman 2007 , America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U. Not surprisingly, therefore, black leader Booker T. Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900—1950. The union can discriminate on the basis of blood relationships or skin color rather than auctioning off openly selling the valuable jobs to the highest-bidding applicants. New York: Simon and Schuster. Nonunion firms can indeed introduce grievance procedures too--but only by giving up power.
WHAT DO UNIONS DO? by Richard B. & James L. Medoff Freeman
Economist Ray Marshall, although a prounion secretary of labor under President Jimmy Carter, made his academic reputation by documenting how unions excluded blacks from membership in the 1930s and 1940s. But wages of unionized mine workers, building trades people, airline pilots, merchant seamen, postal workers, teamsters, rail workers, and auto and steel workers exceed wages of similarly skilled nonunion employees by 25 percent or more. The new firms hire these workers and thereby put upward pressure on the prices paid to labor until further profit from the initial exploitation of isolated labor disappears. Topics covered include the economic theory of unions; the history of economic thought on unions; the effect of unions on wages, benefits, capital investment, productivity, income inequality, dispute resolution, and job satisfaction; the performance of unions in an international perspective; the reasons for the decline of unions; and the future of unions. That is because another of their functions, once they have raised wages above competitive levels, is to ration the jobs that remain. In doing so, however, they have reduced the number of jobs available in unionized companies. During the job boom of the late 1990s, the union premium eroded, following a historical pattern.
WHAT DO UNIONS DO? by Richard B. & James L. Medoff Freeman
He has carried out a variety of studies on the internationalization of science, as more than half of the PhDs graduating in science and engineering from U. Assuming that unions continue to decline, what organizations might replace them? Reduced organizing, combined with greatly increased management opposition, legal and illegal. That second effect occurs because of the basic law of : if unions successfully raise the price of labor, employers will purchase less of it. The reverse happens during an employment slump like that of the early 2000s because nonunion wage growth slumps as hiring weakens, while union wage gains march on. Conventional assumptions about union behavior should be recast in a broader international comparative context, exploiting new primary data-sets through a multior preferably inter-disciplinary theoretical approach. Harvard Institute of Economic Research, September. By 2002, railroad employment had slipped to 216,000, down 13 percent since 1987, while total nonfarm employment grew 26 percent during the same period.
Economic models of union behavior are both partial and ethnocentrc, which limit our understanding of what unions do, especially why they do what they do, and the possibilities for trade union revival in the twenty-first century. Freeman has made several significant but controversial contributions to economics and the field of industrial relations. Users who downloaded this paper also downloaded these: Freeman w0248 Freeman and Medoff w1249 Blanchflower and Bryson w9973 Clark w0990 Freeman w1452. Freeman has made the case that expanding programs for employee ownership and broader-based profit sharing would help reduce inequality in the United States. Why, then, do unionized workers express greater dissatisfaction about their working conditions? Although our research on the non-wage effects of trade unions is by no means complete and some results will surely change as more evidence becomes available, enough work has been done to yield the broad outlines of a new view of unionism. He co-wrote with Joseph R. By contrast, rival leagues, court rulings, and collective bargaining have broken the old system of noncompetitive salaries for professional athletes in team sports such as football, basketball, and baseball in favor of approximately competitive labor markets.
In What Do Unions Do? The wage advantage enjoyed by union members results from two factors. More generally, what is at issue is the potential for owners of cooperating, complementary inputs to exploit and underpay each other. Many unions have won higher wages and better working conditions for their members. In fact, extensive mineral deposits mined by a single company are rare. Bozeman, Barry, Link, Albert N.
What do unions do? / Richard B. Freeman & James L. Medoff
Secretary of Labor under President. Unions representing garment workers, textile workers, white-collar government workers, and teachers seem to have little impact on wages. It will be the benchmark for years to come. Washington opposed unions all his life, and W. From the popular viewpoint, trade unionism is a simple, definite phenomenon upon which it is easy and safe to pass positive and sweeping judgments. Yet economists point out that the U.
What do unions do? / Richard B. Freeman & James L. Medoff
Labor unions cannot prosper in a competitive environment. A 2002 unionization rate of 37. First, monopoly unions raise wages above competitive levels. A cogent, up-to-date case for unions--with a lot of statistical and conceptual meat. The objectives are threefold: to evaluate and critique the theory, evidence, and conclusions of Freeman and Medoff; to provide a comprehensive update of the theoretical and empirical literature on unions since the publication of their book; and to offer a balanced assessment and critique of the effects of unions on the economy and society. During the 1911 strike against the Illinois Central, noted Marshall, whites killed two black strikebreakers and wounded three others at McComb, Mississippi. Gregg 1963 Unionism and Relative Wages in the United States.
WHAT DO UNIONS DO? by Richard B. & James L. Medoff Freeman
Like other successful cartels, they depend on government patronage and protection. The man in the street, the lawyer, the economist, the social worker, the teacher, the preacher, each has his positive concept and his positive scheme for union contro. The average union wage premium for railroad workers over similarly skilled nonrailroad workers, for example, increased from 32 percent to 50 percent between 1973 and 1987; at the same time, employment on railroads declined from 520,000 to 249,000. The volume concludes with a chapter by Richard Freeman in which he assesses the arguments and evidence presented in the other chapters and presents his evaluation of how What Do Unions Do? Unfortunately, these studies tend to be long on description but short on theoretical explanation. For in addition to raising wages, unions have significant non-wage effects which influence diverse aspects of modern industrial life. Labor Market, New York: Russell Sage; Kimberly Ann Elliott and Richard B. Industrial unions have had to organize whoever was hired, and industrial companies have hired large numbers of black workers.
