Unionism and Wage-Income Ratios: 1929-51
RECENT contributors 1 to the discussion of the effect of union bargaining power on labor's earnings have given only passing attention to one important facet of this problem: the influence of union pressure on the distributive share of income generated by industry that is paid to labor. While statistics have been gathered and studies made 2 of aggregate distributive shares, little attempt has been made to develop analysis around interand intraindustry comparisons of wage-income structures in the light of union growth. The purpose of this paper is to take one step toward a consideration of statistical data of the last two decades and test the hypothesis that where wage earners are strongly organized in trade unions, one might expect labour to succeed in obtaining a larger share of the product than elsewhere. 3
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- 10.2307/1924878
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- 36 (1)
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- 67
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