Freeman, Richard B. <br/><br/>
The Two Faces of Unionism / 
Richard B. Freeman, James L. Medoff. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  1979. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w0364 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w0364. .
<br/><br/> June 1979. 
<br/><br/> Our research demonstrates that the view of unions as organizations whose chief function is to raise wages is seriously misleading. For in addition to raising wages, unions have significant non-wage effects which influence diverse aspects of modern industrial life. By providing workers with a voice both at the workplace and in the political arena, unions can and do affect positively the functioning of the economic and social systems. Although our research on the non-wage effects of trade unions is by no means complete and some results will surely change as more evidence becomes available, enough work has been done to yield the broad outlines of a new view of unionism. 
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