This study examines a neglected aspect of research on industrial relations: workplace disputes in which workers are incidentally made idle because of the strike actions of others. The work uses a comprehensive dataset from 1920 to 1970 compiled by the UK Engineering Employers' Federation (EEF),...

This paper investigates the timing of labour strikes in Hollywood. The occurrence of strikes, such as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, can make sense when we have the hindsight to piece together the historical details of what created rifts between labour and management. But why do strikes...

This paper explains brinkmanship with infinitely repeated veto bargaining games, where players have private information. In the basic model, the paper solves for two types of Perfect Bayesian Equilibria. First, in Risk-Taking Equilibria (RTE), the proposer is more risk-seeking and engages in...