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- Title
Union Merger Process and Industrial Environment.
- Authors
Freeman, John; Brittain, Jack
- Abstract
The article explores the merger patterns of national labor unions over time in the United States. It assumes that unions are organizations and are structured partly to attain goals and partly to survive. The authors investigate the frequency of mergers in relation to patterns of industrial activity and increasingly threatening environmental conditions. They are also concerned with how the environment affects the mixture of member occupations in a merger. Lastly, they also examine whether hard times change the size relationship of the merging unions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LABOR union mergers; ORGANIZATION; LABOR union members; OCCUPATIONS; LABOR; LABOR unions; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; LABOR movement
- Publication
Industrial Relations, 1977, Vol 16, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
0019-8676
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-232X.1977.tb00086.x