Union membership trends: a study of the Garment Workers. (International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: June 1, 1986| Author: Kahn, Shulamit | Copyright information

Union membership trends: a study of the Garment Workers

Aggregation obscures. When union growth and contraction are studied on the national level, many systematic influences on union growth within particular industries are lost. This is both because union membership's sensitivity to these influences differs widely among industries, and because changes in the influencing factors are often distributed very unevenly among industries.

One factor that will be part...

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