Judicial Hostility Toward Labor Unions? Applying the Social Background Model to a Celebrated Concern

Anarchists and Labor Unions: Applying New Social Movmenent Theory to the Characteristics of Contemporary Anarchists

This paper studies the characteristics and union membership of North American anarchists. Traditionally, anarchism has been a working-class based movement that rejects authority and domination. New social movement (NSM) theory suggests that movements have changed in recent decades to focus less on the working class and economic issues, and more upon social and political concerns. A survey by a ...

Social Architecture, Judicial Peer Effects and the "Evolution" of the Law: Toward a Positive Theory of Judicial Social Structure

Labor Unions and Labor Management: 1900-1930

some times used their powers to achieve unjustifiable ends, at employers' or public's expense. But, although such excesses might illustrate the need for enlightened leadership or perhaps for some mild legal reforms, their conclusion on balance is that big labor was a necessary offset to big businesses. Knowing and agreeing to the outcome -big labor -in turn informs most histories of the evoluti...

Notes on the Economics of Labor Unions

A common de nition of a labor union is that it is an association of workers who bargain collectively with their employer regarding the terms and conditions of employment. Economic analysis of labor unions falls largely into four related categories: 1) unions as maximizing agents, 2) dispute resolution: strikes and arbitration, 3) the e ect of unions on wages, and 4) the determination of union m...

Unions and the Labor Market for Managers

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a unionized workforce. We develop a simple effciency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the firm. Unions, by redistributing rents t...