TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freeman,Richard B.
AU  - Medoff,James L.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Two Faces of Unionism
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1979///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - June 1979; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w0364
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w0364
ER  -