National and District Systems of Collective Bargaining in the United States

George E. Barnett

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1912, vol. 26, issue 3, 425-443

Abstract: I. Rapid increase of systems of collective bargaining after 1897, 425. — List of systems established and terminated from 1898 to 1911, 427. — II. Success or failure of these systems to some extent independent of the character of the system, 429. — Classification of systems on basis of area of wage rates, 431. — Greater success of systems under which national or district rates are fixed, 433. — III. Desire of employers to bring working rules of national union under joint determination, 435. — Difficulty of achieving this under systems in which only local rates are fixed, 438. — IV. Tendencies favoring establishment of national and district rates of wages, 440. — Circumstances under which systems with only local rates may succeed, 443.

Date: 1912
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