What Unions No Longer Do

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From workers’ wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in ten, and just one in twenty in the private sector–the lowest in a century. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. At the same time as many studies have attempted to provide an explanation for the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do lays bare the broad repercussions of labor’s collapse for the American economy and polity.

Organized labor used to be not just a minor player all over the “golden age” of welfare capitalism in the middle decades of the twentieth century, Jake Rosenfeld asserts. Fairly, for generations it used to be the core institution fighting for economic and political equality in america. Unions leveraged their bargaining power to deliver tangible benefits to workers At the same time as shaping cultural understandings of fairness in the administrative center. The labor movement helped sustain an unprecedented period of prosperity among The us’s expanding, an increasing number of multiethnic middle class.

What Unions No Longer Do shows in detail the consequences of labor’s decline: curtailed advocacy for better working conditions, weakened improve for immigrants’ economic assimilation, and ineffectiveness in addressing wage stagnation among African Americans. In short, unions are no longer instrumental in combating inequality in our economy and our politics, and the result is a sharp decline in the prospects of American workers and their families.

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