Introduction to 'Killing Unions with Culture: Institutions, Inequality, and the Effects of Labor's Decline in the United States'

摘要

Much has been written in recent years about the factors contributing to the current weakness of the US trade union movement. Union density in this country, for example, has not reached such a low level since 1916. Coinciding with organized labor's decline over the last 30 years is the concomitant rise in economic inequality in the United States which became a rallying point for the OccupyWall Street Movement when it was formedmore than three years ago.More recently, increasing economic inequality has been reignited as a hot topic of conversation in the United Stateswith the publication of the English translation of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century in April 2014.