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The paradox of American unionism : why Americans like unions more than Canadians do, but join much less

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The paradox of American unionism : why Americans like unions more than Canadians do, but join much less / Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz ; foreword by Thomas A. Kochan.
Author
Lipset, Seymour Martin.
Publication
Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2004.

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Meltz, Noah M.
Description
xii, 226 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Subjects
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.
Contents
Paradoxes, anomalies and hypotheses -- Union density in a cross-national context -- The evolution of trade unions in the United States and Canada: the emergence of "the gap" in union density -- Social democratic Canada/free market United States -- Attitudes and values: an inverted relationship -- Frustrated demand: more Americans want to join unions -- The contribution of states and provinces to the unionization gap -- Unions among professionals and other white-collar workers in the United States -- Unions among professionals and other white-collar workers in Canada -- Estimates of non-union employee representation: how different are the two countries? -- The effects of differing cultural and political legacies on unionization -- Appendix I. Union membership and union density estimates: methodology and comparability -- Appendix II. summary of the survey methodology.
Call Number
JBE 06-1327
ISBN
0801442001 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003024992
OCLC
53476877
Author
Lipset, Seymour Martin.
Title
The paradox of American unionism : why Americans like unions more than Canadians do, but join much less / Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz ; foreword by Thomas A. Kochan.
Imprint
Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.
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Meltz, Noah M.
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JBE 06-1327
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