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Labor‐Management Partnerships' Effects On Unionists' Interaction Networks: Evidence From Us Public Schools
Author(s) -
McCarthy John E.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/irel.12279
Subject(s) - clarity , context (archaeology) , test (biology) , public relations , industrial relations , empirical evidence , empirical research , labor relations , trade union , political science , business , labour economics , economics , law , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , epistemology , biology
Industrial Relations scholars have argued that labor‐management partnerships influence union leaders' communication patterns within organizations. To date, however, these arguments have lacked theoretical clarity, as well as strong empirical support. We address this gap by developing and testing hypotheses that concern how the emergence of labor‐management partnerships shape union leaders' communication patterns within and between worksites (Study 1), as well as how these communications patterns associate with frontline workers' attitudes about their jobs and their union leader (Study 2). We test our hypotheses using multi‐source, multi‐year data from the context of U.S. public schools.