New technologies drive productivity growth, yet the distribution of gains may be unequal. We study how labor market institutions – specifically shop-floor worker representation – mediate the impact of automation. Combining German individual-level administrative records with plant-level data...

Works councils reduce job separations during automation events, especially when firms can easily replace incumbent workers. Among workers who are most prone to automation, works councils prevent wage and earnings losses when firms adopt robots. Works councils prevent earnings inequality through...

New technologies drive productivity growth but the distribution of gains might be unequal and is mediated by labor market institutions. We study the role that organized labor plays in shielding incumbent workers from the potential negative consequences of automation. Combining German...

Brewery workers who migrated between the Czech Lands and the United States existed in a complex world of fluid loyalties and ideologies that traveled with them as they crossed back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. This article focuses on the publications of brewery workers' unions on both...

"The Limits of Revolution traces the rise and fall of a revolutionary coalition in a copper mining city in the Andes, showing how intimate struggles over belonging helped win one of Latin America's most sweeping and least studied social revolutions." - Provided by publisher

"Comment Moscou a-t-il pris le contrôle du mouvement syndical français dans l'entre-deux-guerres ? À partir d'archives inédites, cette enquête historique révèle quelles furent les stratégies secrètes du Komintern pour réorganiser le monde ouvrier, pour imposer sa ligne et pour faire du...

Anhand von Paneldaten für Deutschland, die Schweiz, Großbritannien und die USA wird die Auswirkung der Mitgliedschaft in einer Gewerkschaft auf Parteipräferenzen untersucht. Die Kontrolle zeitinvarianter Selektionseffekte stellt heraus, dass Gewerkschaften einen zwar leichten, aber stetigen...

This paper examines how the democratic transition in Korea affected firm strategy through the changes in industrial relations. The existing studies have pointed out that it unleashed workers’ demand that had been suppressed by the authoritarian regime, though there was little disaggregated...

"Like many Midwestern factory towns, deindustrialization damaged Racine in the 1970s and 1980s. But the Wisconsin city differed from others like it in one important way: workers maintained their homegrown working-class economy and political culture. Even as labor declined across the country,...

This paper provides the first causal evidence on how occupational wage inequality affects the labor movement, using three complementary research designs: a vignette experiment with union organizers, an information intervention during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, and a natural...

"Description: Following World War II, women living in small towns and farms all across the Midwest, woke every morning, packed their lunches, and headed out for a long day of work in a nearby factory. Many of these women never envisioned themselves as industrial workers, but the political and...

This chapter examines the concept and evolution of Social Movement Unionism (SMU), exploring how unions increasingly engage beyond traditional labour concerns to advocate for broader socio-political changes. SMU emerged as a response to the limitations of conventional unionism, aligning union...

The debates as to whether trade unions should be viewed as social movements is longstanding. We propose that unions are the organisational forms of the labour movement and that despite declining membership, unions remain influential social, economic, and political actors in liberal democratic...

This entry draws on my ethnographic research in the Rust Belt region of Pennsylvania. During the COVID-19 pandemic, social movement and labor organizations waged campaigns in relation to the state-designation of “essential” work and against the exclusion of migrant workers from federal...

"The history of labor is inextricably linked with the history of the United States, and today, undergraduate students are seeing a new chapter in labor history unfold before them, with wages stagnating, inequality growing, and unions taking on renewed importance in the workplace. While labor...

Solidarity is probably one of the most undeniable concepts of the social sciences as it is present in every group formation being this a country, a family or a trade union. But globalization has questioned the core of traditional solidarity and has challenged us to find new forms of solidarity...