Workers Looking for Jobs, Unions Looking for Members. Michael D. Yates.
by Yates, Michael D; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 56Business. Publisher: Monthly Review, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Capitalism | Employees -- Economic conditions | Employment (Economic theory) | Household surveys | Labor economics | Labor market | Labor union members | Labor unions | Working classDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Capitalist economies always experience cyclical ups and downs, and they are always susceptible to structural changes, such as technological revolutions. These, in turn, have multiple impacts on the working class. However, the strength of these impacts is critically dependent on how well workers are collectively organized, both in their workplaces and politically. It is one thing to lose a job as a steelworker in a nonunion plant; it is another to lose one in a unionized workplace. It is one thing to have your job outsourced when you were working in the United States; it is another to have it sent out of the country when you were employed in Germany. There is a great difference between being poor in the United States and being poor in Sweden. These differences are due to the different levels of organization of these countries' working classes." (MONTHLY REVIEW) The author suggests that "workers are better off, both in terms of wages and benefits and social provision, in places where union density is high."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Workers Looking for Jobs, Unions Looking for Members, April 2004; pp. 36-48.
"Capitalist economies always experience cyclical ups and downs, and they are always susceptible to structural changes, such as technological revolutions. These, in turn, have multiple impacts on the working class. However, the strength of these impacts is critically dependent on how well workers are collectively organized, both in their workplaces and politically. It is one thing to lose a job as a steelworker in a nonunion plant; it is another to lose one in a unionized workplace. It is one thing to have your job outsourced when you were working in the United States; it is another to have it sent out of the country when you were employed in Germany. There is a great difference between being poor in the United States and being poor in Sweden. These differences are due to the different levels of organization of these countries' working classes." (MONTHLY REVIEW) The author suggests that "workers are better off, both in terms of wages and benefits and social provision, in places where union density is high."
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