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Unions, Worker Voice, and Management Practices: Implications for a High-Productivity, High-Wage Economy

Thomas A. Kochan, William T. Kimball
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2019, 5 (5) 88-108; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.05
Thomas A. Kochan
aGeorge Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, professor of work and employment research, and codirector of the MIT Sloan School Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management
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vol. 5 no. 5 88-108
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.05

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2377-8253
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  • Published online November 4, 2019.

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© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Kochan, Thomas A., and William T. Kimball. 2019. “Unions, Worker Voice, and Management Practices: Implications for a High-Productivity, High-Wage Economy.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(5): 88–108. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.05. Funding for this research was provided by the MIT Good Companies-Good Jobs Initiative. All views expressed are solely those of the authors. Direct correspondence to: Thomas A. Kochan at tkochan@mit.edu, Office 388, MIT Sloan School of Management, 100 Main St., Cambridge, MA 02142. 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. Thomas A. Kochana and
  2. William T. Kimballb
  1. aGeorge Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, professor of work and employment research, and codirector of the MIT Sloan School Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management
  2. bPhD student at the MIT Sloan School Institute for Work and Employment Research
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    Thomas A. Kochan, (tkochan{at}mit.edu)
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    • COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND THE POSTWAR SOCIAL CONTRACT
    • UNION WAGE EFFECTS DURING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT ERA
    • UNION EFFECTS ON PRODUCTIVITY
    • UNION EFFECTS ON PROFITS
    • THE BREAKDOWN OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
    • VARIATIONS IN UNION EFFECTS AND THE QUALITY OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONSHIPS
    • OUT OF THE ASHES: CURRENT STATE OF WORKER VOICE
    • EMERGING FORMS OF WORKER VOICE
    • IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY
    • STARTING POINTS FOR A NEW LABOR POLICY
    • BROADER STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING JOB QUALITY
    • TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF WORK
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