TY  - JOUR
AU  - Freeman,Richard B.
AU  - Medoff,James L.
TI  - The Two Faces of Unionism
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 364
PY  - 1979
Y2  - June 1979
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0364
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0364.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Richard B. Freeman
NBER
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Cambridge, MA  02138
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E-Mail: freeman@nber.org

James L. Medoff
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Littauer Center 115
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/495-4209
E-Mail: jmedoff@harvard.edu
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AB  - Our research demonstrates that the view of unions as organizations whose chief function is to raise wages is seriously misleading. For in addition to raising wages, unions have significant non-wage effects which influence diverse aspects of modern industrial life. By providing workers with a voice both at the workplace and in the political arena, unions can and do affect positively the functioning of the economic and social systems. Although our research on the non-wage effects of trade unions is by no means complete and some results will surely change as more evidence becomes available, enough work has been done to yield the broad outlines of a new view of unionism.
ER  -