The Two Faces of Unionism
The Two Faces of Unionism
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工会主义的两个面孔
DOI：
10.3386/w0364
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发表时间：
1979
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通讯作者：
James L. Medoff
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作者：
Richard B. Freeman;James L. Medoff
我们的研究表明，将工会视为主要职能是提高工资的组织的观点是严重误导的。因为除了提高工资之外，工会还具有重要的非工资影响，影响着现代工业生活的各个方面。工会通过使工人在工作场所和政治竞技场上发表意见，能够而且确实对经济和社会制度的运作产生积极影响。尽管我们对工会的非工资效应的研究还不完全，而且随着更多的证据的出现，某些结果肯定会改变，但已经做了足够的工作来产生工会主义新观点的大致轮廓。
Our research demonstrates that the view of unions as organizations whose chief function is to raise wages is seriously misleading. For in addition to raising wages, unions have significant non-wage effects which influence diverse aspects of modern industrial life. By providing workers with a voice both at the workplace and in the political arena, unions can and do affect positively the functioning of the economic and social systems. Although our research on the non-wage effects of trade unions is by no means complete and some results will surely change as more evidence becomes available, enough work has been done to yield the broad outlines of a new view of unionism.