The Theory of Union Growth

Horace B. Davis

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1941, vol. 55, issue 4, 611-637

Abstract: I. Conditions favorable to union growth: unions as defensive organizations, 611; the "prosperity theory," 614; union growth and price movements, 617. — Preliminary formulation of a theory of union growth, 619. — II. Booms in union growth, 620. — The influence of wars, 622. — Inertia, 623. — Employer opposition, 624. — The "welfare" approach, 625. — III. The importance of leadership, 625. — IV. The influence of industrialization, 628. — V. Conclusion: expansion of the preliminary theory of union growth, 632.

Date: 1941
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