Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Political Context of Union Certification Elections

博士论文研究：工会认证选举的政治背景

• 批准号: 0526315
• 负责人: David Jacobs
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0526315&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Context

What factors determine labor unions' ability to build membership with workplace recognition elections? Certification elections determine whether a workplace will be organized. Victory in these elections is the primary way that unions gain new members. The frequency of such elections, however, has fallen sharply. Analysts interested in the decline of union membership often emphasize shifting economic arrangements, globalization, employer resistance, and shortcomings in union organizing strategies. What is commonly overlooked, however, is the influence of national politics on labor's fortunes. For this reason and because political opportunities often are a crucial determinant of social movement success, this study fills a void in the literature by using a time-series analysis to isolate the factors that help unions' obtain these elections. The findings address how politics influence labor's capacity to build their membership. They also extend theories about how business, labor, and the government interact under different historical conditions. The results will offer new insights about the relationships between social movements and democratic states and thereby provide additional knowledge about the effects of political opportunities on social movements. This research is important for the average citizen because it sheds light on factors that contribute to the decline of organizations that provide workplace protections for workers. The new data (that come from the National Labor Relations Board and from government publications) will be made available to other scholars and thus should enhance research in this area. This research will be conducted at Ohio State University and the findings will be presented at professional conferences and in scientific journals.

哪些因素决定了工会通过工作场所认可选举建立会员资格的能力？ 认证选举决定是否将组织工作场所。这些选举中的胜利是工会获得新成员的主要方式。 但是，此类选举的频率急剧下降。 对工会成员减少感兴趣的分析师通常强调改变经济安排，全球化，雇主抵抗和工会组织策略的缺点。 然而，通常忽略的是国家政治对劳动命运的影响。 因此，由于政治机会通常是社会运动成功的关键决定因素，因此这项研究通过使用时间序列分析来隔离有助于工会获得这些选举的因素来填补文献中的空白。 这些发现涉及政治如何影响工党建立成员资格的能力。他们还扩展了有关商业，劳动和政府如何在不同历史条件下互动的理论。结果将提供有关社会运动与民主国家之间关系的新见解，从而为政治机会对社会运动的影响提供了更多知识。这项研究对普通公民很重要，因为它阐明了有助于为工人提供工作场所保护的组织下降的因素。 新数据（来自国家劳资关系委员会和政府出版物）将提供给其他学者，因此应加强该领域的研究。 这项研究将在俄亥俄州立大学进行，调查结果将在专业会议和科学期刊上进行。