This inductive examination of responses to open-ended questions in a 1997 survey categorizes and assesses workers’ attitudes toward unions. The author’s content analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis, and textual analysis of the survey responses yield several results with implications for...

This is the first study of how various factors, particularly unions, affect the likelihood of plant closures in Australia. Australia is of special interest in this connection, the authors argue, because of its unique industrial relations institutions, which, at the time of the study (1990-95),...