- Author’s Preface
- Part I. Economic Development and the National Trade Union
- 1. The Position of Labor
- The Record of Growth, 1850–1900
- The Relative Scarcity of Labor
- The Organization of Labor
- 2. The Environment of the National Union
- The Impact of Immigration
- The Impact of the Extension of Markets
- The Impact of Innovation
- The Impact of the Big Firm
- The Impact of Business Conditions
- 1. The Position of Labor
- Part II. The Traveling Member and the National Union
- 3. The Geographic Mobility of Labor
- Theoretical Effects of Mobility on National Unionism
- Historical Incentives to Mobility
- The Extent of Geographic Mobility
- 4. The Process of Nationalization
- The Single-handed Approach and Its Failure
- Cooperation and Its Deficiencies
- The National Union and the Traveling Card
- 5. The Traveling Member and National Citizenship
- Extension of National Authority over the Individual Member
- Organization and Jurisdiction
- The Exclusive Local Agreement
- The Printers—A Special Case
- 3. The Geographic Mobility of Labor
- Part III. Control over Strikes: The National Power and the National Purse
- 6. The Power of the National Purse
- 7. Some Other Factors in the Development of Strike Control
- Skill
- Nature of the Market
- Benefits
- Age and Date of Formation
- The Scope of Employer Relations
- Part IV. National Government and the Power of Office
- 8. The Development of the National Executive
- The British Experience
- The American Experience
- 9. The Convention
- Systems of Representation
- Freeing of the Delegates
- Substituting the Referendum
- Failure of the Convention as a National Institution
- 10. The Referendum and the Executive Board
- Control by Popular Vote
- Control by the Executive Board
- The Problem of Apathy
- 8. The Development of the National Executive
- Part V. Jurisdiction and Federation
- 11. Economic Aspects of Jurisdiction
- “Disagreeableness” and Industrial Unionism
- Skill and Craft Unionism
- “Compound Craft” Unionism
- The Printers—A Digression
- 12. Local and National Federation
- The Implications of Jurisdiction
- Local Federation
- National Federation—The Knights
- 13. National Federation: The American Federation of Labor
- Autonomy
- Exclusive Jurisdiction
- 11. Economic Aspects of Jurisdiction
- Part VI. Relations with Employers
- 14. National Strike Policies
- Strikes in Depression and in Prosperity
- Seasonal Strikes and the Annual Agreement
- Where to Strike
- 15. Some Employer Wage Policies
- Employer Practices
- 16. Policies on Geographic Differentials
- Union Attitudes and Policies
- Employer Influence: National Collective Bargaining
- 17. Work Rules
- Guaranteeing Work and Wages
- Restraining the Worker
- 14. National Strike Policies
- Part VII. The National Union in the American Labor Movement
- 18. Some Theories of the Labor Movement
- Commons’ Theory
- Perlman’s Theory
- An Alternative Hypothesis
- 18. Some Theories of the Labor Movement
- Appendix I. Local Jurisdiction
- Appendix II. The Seasonal Bargain
- Appendix III. Incentive Pay
- Appendix IV. Make-Work Rules
- Index
WERTHEIM PUBLICATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
The Rise of the National Trade Union
The Development and Significance of Its Structure, Governing Institutions, and Economic Policies, Second Edition
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Publication Date: 01/01/1955
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