Institutional Mechanisms for Unionization in Sixteen OECD Countries: An Analysis of Social Survey Data

Journal Title:	Social forces 1994, Vol.73 (2), p.497-519
Main Author:	Western, B.
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Subjects:	Collective bargaining Corporatism Crossnational studies Employees Employment Industrial unions Institutional aspects Institutions International Economic Organizations Labor markets Labor unionization Labor unions Labour market OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Political institutions Politics Polls & surveys Social classes Social Institutions Social research Social Structure Social surveys Surveys Trade unionism Unemployment insurance Union organizing Unionization Unions Working class
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A key debate in studies of unionization concerns the influence of structural characteristics of labor markets on labor organizing. Studies of national survey data reveal strong relationships between unionization and demographic, industrial, and occupational structures. By contrast, comparativists analyzing highly aggregated union density data emphasize the institutional determinants of labor organization. In this article I synthesize structural and institutional explanations of unionization in a multilevel analysis that combines social survey data and comparative institutional information from 16 countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. This analysis indicates that highly centralized collective bargaining and union-managed unemployment insurance schemes are associated with high and distinctively solidaristic patterns of unionization. More generally, the results suggests that institutions that displace market allocation with political control assist working-class organization in trade unions.

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Richard Berk, Sanford Jacoby, Ivan Szelenyi, Michael Wallerstein, and Maurice Zeitlin provided comments on earlier drafts. Jan de Leeuw provided very helpful statistical advice. Marty Pawlocki and Libby Stephenson at UCLA's Institute of Social Science Research provided invaluable data archival assistance. This article also greatly benefited from the comments of the editor and anonymous Social Forces reviewers.

Direct all correspondence to Bruce Western, Department of Sociology, 2-N-2 Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1010.

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