Work environments and workers' grievances: Accounting for variation in wildcat strikes in the US coal mining industry, 1970–1977
Economic and Industrial Democracy
2019
40
4
November
1039-1056
coal mining ; strike ; work environment ; labour relations ; history
Mining
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0143831X16681484
English
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" This article examines the role of work environments and workers' grievances as factors generating wildcat strikes in the US coal mining industry from 1970 to 1977, a period of intense worker–management conflict. Drawing on historical and empirical evidence, it argues that the classical wage-bargaining model of authorized strike activity fails to account for variation in the incidence of wildcat strikes in general, and those in the coal mines in particular. The analysis employs a unique data set on wildcat strikes in the coal industry during the period. This article brings the analysis of the causes of wildcat strikes into closer dialogue with social and labor movement theory."
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