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Research ArticleII. Social Consequences of the Great Recession
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Labor Unions and the Great Recession

Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2017, 3 (3) 145-165; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.07
Ruth Milkman
aDistinguished professor of sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and research director of CUNY’s Murphy Institute
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bProfessor of sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and professor of labor studies at CUNY’s Murphy Institute
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vol. 3 no. 3 145-165
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.07

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2377-8253
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  • Published online April 1, 2017.

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© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Milkman, Ruth, and Stephanie Luce. 2017. “Labor Unions and the Great Recession.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(3): 145–65. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.07. Direct correspondence to: Ruth Milkman at rmilkman{at}gc.cuny.edu, Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10016; and Stephanie Luce at stephanie.luce{at}mail.cuny.edu, Murphy Institute/CUNY, 25 W. 43rd St., 19th Floor, New York, NY 10036. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Ruth Milkmana and
  2. Stephanie Luceb
  1. aDistinguished professor of sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and research director of CUNY’s Murphy Institute
  2. bProfessor of sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and professor of labor studies at CUNY’s Murphy Institute
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    Ruth Milkman, (rmilkman{at}gc.cuny.edu); Stephanie Luce, (stephanie.luce{at}mail.cuny.edu)
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    • U.S. UNION DENSITY TRENDS AND THE GREAT RECESSION
    • AN INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
    • NEW DIRECTIONS: “ALT-LABOR” AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY U.S. UNIONISM
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