What Unions No Longer Do

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By Jake Rosenfeld *07

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Harvard University Press) In the time immediately after World War II, one in three workers belonged to a union. Now, that number in the private sector is just one in 20. In What Unions No Longer Do, Rosenfeld argues that the decline of organized labor, once the core institution fighting for economic and political equality in the United States, has led to a marked decline in the prospects of American workers and their families. Rosenfeld is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington.

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