Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social and Political Consequences of Union Decline

博士论文研究：工会衰落的社会和政治后果

• 批准号: 0623202
• 负责人: Bruce Western
• 金额: $ 0.27万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0623202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Political

SES-0623202Bruce WesternJake RosenfeldThis dissertation research studies major economic and political effects of labor union decline in the United States since the early 1980s. The dramatic erosion of labor's organizational base during the past few decades has consequences beyond the well-documented decline in male blue-collar wages. The co-PI hypothesizes that unions concern themselves with the broader wage distribution within the workplace, establishing pay norms that narrow pay dispersion. The lack of union presence in a firm grants management the decisive hand in establishing pay scales for themselves and their employees, contributing to the recent growth in inter-occupational wage inequality. The decline in union density has direct consequences for the polity. This project provides a comprehensive account of how labor's loss in recent years helped shift the partisan balance while dampening electoral turnout. Finally, scholars of social movements have long been interested in work stoppages, perhaps the most consistent and visible signs of collective action in society. Yet, due to previous data limitations, little is known about the sharp reduction in this form of collective action and its broader consequences for workers. Using previously unreleased data on nearly every authorized work stoppage that occurred between 1984 and 2002, the co-PI contends that the established economic models of strike mobilization no longer best predict whether workers will walk the picket line. Instead, in the post-accord period, labor's shrinking organizational base better accounts for the decline of the strike. Further, given labor's enervated organizational strength, the strike itself no longer operates to raise living standards for workers. Data from the project come from several sources. For the major macro-level analyses the Current Population Data (CPS), supplemented with previously unreleased strike data from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) will be used. Archived work stoppage data will be collected from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) office in Washington, DC. In addition, the co-PI will supplement the quantitative work with semi-structured interviews with labor leaders conducted at the second annual Change to Win conventionBroader Impacts. This project links two of the major concerns preoccupying social scientists and policymakers in recent years: the rapid growth in earnings inequality and the decline in civic participation. This project also provides the first comprehensive analysis of strike decline in recent decades. Researchers interested in social movements must contend with the near-disappearance of the strike, and the consequences this has on other forms of collective mobilization.

SES-0623202自1980年代初以来，美国工会的论文研究研究的主要经济和政治影响的主要经济和政治影响的主要经济和政治影响。 在过去的几十年中，工党组织基础的剧烈侵蚀带来了男性蓝领工资的据可查的后果。 Co-Pi假设工会涉及工作场所内更广泛的工资分配，建立了薪酬狭窄的薪酬规范。 在公司中缺乏联盟的赠款管理，在为自己及其雇员建立薪酬量表方面的决定性之手，促进了近期职业间工资不平等的增长。 工会密度的下降对政体有直接的影响。 该项目综合说明了近年来工党损失如何帮助党派平衡，同时削弱了选举的投票率。 最后，社会运动的学者长期以来一直对停工感兴趣，这也许是社会中集体行动最一致，最明显的迹象。 然而，由于以前的数据限制，对这种集体行动形式及其对工人的更广泛后果的急剧减少知之甚少。 Co-Pi使用先前未发布的数据对1984年至2002年之间发生的几乎所有授权的工作停止，认为既定的罢工动员经济模型不再可以最好地预测工人是否会走纠察队。 取而代之的是，在后期时期，工党的组织基础缩小更好地说明了罢工的下降。 此外，鉴于工党充满活力的组织实力，罢工本身不再运作以提高工人的生活水平。 该项目的数据来自多个来源。 对于主要的宏观分析，将使用当前的人口数据（CPS），并补充了来自联邦调解与调解服务（FMC）的先前未发行的罢工数据。 存档的停工数据将从华盛顿特区的劳工统计局（BLS）办公室收集。 此外，Co-Pi将通过对第二次年度变更赢得ConventionBroader影响的劳工领袖的半结构化访谈来补充定量工作。 该项目将近年来社会科学家和政策制定者的两个主要问题联系在一起：收入不平等的快速增长和公民参与的下降。 该项目还提供了近几十年来罢工下降的首次全面分析。 对社会运动感兴趣的研究人员必须与罢工的近乎分歧抗衡，这对其他形式的集体动员产生了后果。