Collective Action and the Origins of the American Labor Movement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Schmick, Ethan
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050718000360
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 744-784
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; employers; POLITICS; canada; unions

摘要

This article examines the relationship between collective action and the size of worker and employer groups in the United States. It proposes and tests a theory of union formation and strikes. Using a new county-by-industry level dataset containing the location of unions, the location of strikes, average establishment size, and the number of establishments around the turn of the twentieth century, I find that unions were more likely to form and strikes were more likely to occur in counties with intermediate-sized worker groups and large employer groups.