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Trade Agreement vs. Open Shop: Employers' Choices before WWI
Author(s) -
HAYDU JEFFREY
Publication year - 1989
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/j.1468-232x.1989.tb00863.x
Subject(s) - craft , collective bargaining , pace , individualism , trade union , hostility , economics , labour economics , production (economics) , business , market economy , microeconomics , social psychology , psychology , archaeology , geodesy , history , geography
Neither cultural individualism nor hostility to craft control adequately explains American employers' rejection of collective bargaining before World War I. Evidence from selected cases in the U.S. and Britain suggests both that open‐shop policies and trade agreements helped employers manage workplace conflict amid major changes in production practices, and that the relative timing and pace of changes in technology, market structure, and union growth shaped employers' choices.