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Does Density Matter? The Significance of Comparative Historical Variation in Unionization

Author(s) -

Guy Ver

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

european journal of industrial relations

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.251

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1461-7129

pISSN - 0959-6801

DOI - 10.1177/0959680106065040

Subject(s) - prerogative , union density , imperfect , variation (astronomy) , period (music) , economics , economic geography , sociology , political science , law , collective bargaining , politics , philosophy , physics , astrophysics , linguistics , acoustics

This article reviews the variations in aggregate union density in fifteenindustrialized societies over the period 1960-2000. Drawing critically on arange of literatures, it argues that density is a valuable if imperfectexpression of the weight of the infrastructure of joint regulation. Whilstdensity levels cannot express the character or anatomy of this regulation, theybroadly depict the constraints imposed on managerial prerogative by routinizedjoint regulation

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