Movement Spillover and Union Support during the "Long Protest Wave"

John-Paul Ferguson (), Thomas Dudley and Sarah A. Soule
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Thomas Dudley: Stanford University
Sarah A. Soule: Stanford University

Research Papers from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

Abstract: This paper examines whether protest assocated with the "long protest wave" of the 1960s and 1970s positively influenced private-sector union support. Past research has found no such influence. We use measures designed to more closely represent the theoretical mechanisms proposed for spillover--specifically, union support rather than overall union density--and find a clear effect of protest on union support. Moreover, we find that this effect is greatest for unions with more progressive track records than for the labor movement as a whole. These results have implications for the social-movement literature on spillovers, labor studies, and organizational scholarship.

Date: 2015-04
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