Contract Status and the Economic Determinants of Strike Activity

Flaherty, Sean

doi:10.1111/j.1468-232x.1983.tb00250.x

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“…Each of the strike frequencies over noneconomic issues displays a unique pattern, which is consistent with Flaherty's (1983) findings. Union organization strikes (column 2) are positively and significantly affected by the lagged endogenous variable, profits, and Democratic control.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Most researchers have been content to generalize the conclusions from aggregate studies of strike activity to all types of strikes. But as Flaherty (1983) has shown, this can lead to errors of interpretation and theorizing. For instance, most researchers assume that postwar strikes are economistic in tone, but economic interpretations may have limited applicability to strikes over control‐related issues.…”

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confidence: 99%

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After Taft-Hartley: The Legal-Institutional Context of U.S. Strike Activity, 1948 to 1980

Wallace¹

2007

The Sociological Quarterly

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This article examines how the legal‐institutional context created by American labor law has impacted the frequency, issue composition, and economic damage of strike activity since the passage of the Taft‐Hartley Act. Emphasis on the legal‐institutional context complements conventional perspectives of strike activity which focus on business cycle and political‐organizational interpretations. A new labor law index is developed to measure the legal‐institutional context, and it is comprised of five components: number of pro‐labor laws, National Labor Relations Board unfair labor cases filed, use of antilabor injunctions, labor mediation, and labor arbitration. For the period of 1948 to 1980, high values on the labor law index reduced overall strike frequency, reduced some types of control‐related strikes, had no effect on economic strikes, and decreased working time lost to strikes, especially in the monopoly sector. These findings suggest that the legal‐institutional context of the post‐Taft‐Hartley period has served to regulate and delegitimize expressions of labor unrest that most seriously challenge capitalist interests.

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After Taft-Hartley: The Legal-Institutional Context of U.S. Strike Activity, 1948 to 1980

Wallace¹

2007

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…4 Flaherty's (1983) study of wildcat strikes supports 14 See Flaherty (1983) for the relationship of contract status to various dimensions of strikes.…”

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The Importance of Strike Size in Strike Research

Skeels¹,

McGrath²,

Arshanapalli³

1988

ILR Review

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This analysis of 1953–81 Department of Labor strike data demonstrates that strike samples selected on the basis of various size criteria (ranging from 25 or more workers involved to 5,000 or more workers involved) are not representative of all U.S. strikes. “Small” strikes are found to differ significantly from “large” strikes, whatever the size criterion, in terms of industry, strike issue, region of the country, and contract status. The authors question the generalizability of findings of strike research using post-1981 Department of Labor data, which have been collected using an inclusion criterion of 1,000 or more workers involved.

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“…A third factor, with effects on coverage that are less clear, is whether a strike is based on an interest dispute. Interest disputes, which typically involve contract renegotiations and at RITSUMEIKAN UNIV LIBRARY on June 26, 2015 ilr.sagepub.com Downloaded from tend to deal with major cost-related issues such as wages and benefits, may be deemed more newsworthy than other disputes, which may involve local issues and may reveal more about the climate of industrial relations than about costs per se (Flaherty 1987(Flaherty , 1983.…”

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Information on Strikes and Union Settlements: Patterns of Coverage in a “Newspaper of Record”

Erickson¹,

Mitchell²

1996

ILR Review

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The authors investigate whether the New York Times' coverage of strikes and non-strike wage Settlements in large bargaining units changed during the 1980s, a time when a “transformation” of industrial relations is said to have taken place. Although the total number of New York Times articles on such events declined during the 1980s, the authors find that when appropriate control variables are included in the analysis, the apparent drop in coverage disappears. Important variables determining the extent of news coverage were occurrence of a strike, strike duration, number of workers involved, occurrence of federal intervention, key industry status (that is, whether the affected industry was among those industries identified as exceptionally important for wage-setting), and proximity to New York City. They speculate that the reduced number of articles may simply reflect a decreased incidence of strikes.

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Contract Status and the Economic Determinants of Strike Activity

Cited by 22 publications

References 16 publications

After Taft-Hartley: The Legal-Institutional Context of U.S. Strike Activity, 1948 to 1980

After Taft-Hartley: The Legal-Institutional Context of U.S. Strike Activity, 1948 to 1980

The Importance of Strike Size in Strike Research

Information on Strikes and Union Settlements: Patterns of Coverage in a “Newspaper of Record”

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