Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Political Context of Union Certification Elections

博士论文研究：工会认证选举的政治背景

• 批准号: 0526315
• 负责人: David Jacobs
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0526315&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Context

What factors determine labor unions' ability to build membership with workplace recognition elections? Certification elections determine whether a workplace will be organized. Victory in these elections is the primary way that unions gain new members. The frequency of such elections, however, has fallen sharply. Analysts interested in the decline of union membership often emphasize shifting economic arrangements, globalization, employer resistance, and shortcomings in union organizing strategies. What is commonly overlooked, however, is the influence of national politics on labor's fortunes. For this reason and because political opportunities often are a crucial determinant of social movement success, this study fills a void in the literature by using a time-series analysis to isolate the factors that help unions' obtain these elections. The findings address how politics influence labor's capacity to build their membership. They also extend theories about how business, labor, and the government interact under different historical conditions. The results will offer new insights about the relationships between social movements and democratic states and thereby provide additional knowledge about the effects of political opportunities on social movements. This research is important for the average citizen because it sheds light on factors that contribute to the decline of organizations that provide workplace protections for workers. The new data (that come from the National Labor Relations Board and from government publications) will be made available to other scholars and thus should enhance research in this area. This research will be conducted at Ohio State University and the findings will be presented at professional conferences and in scientific journals.

哪些因素决定了工会通过工作场所认可选举建立会员资格的能力？认证选举决定是否组织工作场所。在这些选举中获胜是工会获得新成员的主要方式。然而，此类选举的频率已大幅下降。对工会成员减少感兴趣的分析师经常强调经济安排的变化、全球化、雇主的抵制以及工会组织战略的缺陷。然而，人们通常忽视的是国家政治对工党命运的影响。出于这个原因，由于政治机会往往是社会运动成功的关键决定因素，本研究通过使用时间序列分析来隔离帮助工会获得这些选举的因素，填补了文献中的空白。这些发现解决了政治如何影响工党建立成员资格的能力。它们还扩展了企业、劳工和政府在不同历史条件下如何互动的理论。这些结果将为社会运动和民主国家之间的关系提供新的见解，从而为政治机会对社会运动的影响提供更多的知识。这项研究对普通公民很重要，因为它揭示了导致为工人提供工作场所保护的组织衰落的因素。新的数据(来自国家劳动关系委员会和政府出版物)将提供给其他学者，因此应该会加强这一领域的研究。这项研究将在俄亥俄州立大学进行，研究结果将在专业会议和科学期刊上公布。