Unionization and the White-Collar Worker in Small Businesses

Authors

  • Lewis W. Lash Barry University

Abstract

The American  labor movement has experienced significant challenges in the last two decades in maintaining the size of its membership. The effects of a sharp increase in business being shifted off-shore, an unstable U.S. economy which resulted in major reductions in work force, and the growth of small businesses and the decline in major industry have lead to a continuing erosion of the non-government  employees represented by collective bargaining agencies.

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Published

2003-06-24

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2003)

Section

Small Business Brief

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Unionization and the White-Collar Worker in Small Businesses. (2003). Journal of Small Business Strategy (archive Only), 14(2), 123-128. https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jsbs/article/view/535