Book contents
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Union Trends
- 2 The Consequences of Union Decline
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
2 - The Consequences of Union Decline
from Part I - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
Book contents
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Union Trends
- 2 The Consequences of Union Decline
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Summary
Economic inequality in the United States has reached heights unscaled since before the Great Depression. Today the top 1 percent wealthiest Americans hold nearly 40 percent of the country’s wealth (up from about 20 percent in 1980) and earn over one-fifth of all income (up from about 10 percent in 1980). The doubling of top-end wealth and income inequality has coincided with economic stagnation for millions of American workers, especially men, and especially men without a college education. These troubling trends led President Obama to announce that rising inequality and declining mobility are “the defining challenge[s] of our time.”
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