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June 22, 2025 We Have a Healthy Middle ClassThe biggest issue in the middle class involves changes to consumption, not earnings.
February 11, 2024 Some More Truth About Manufacturing and TradeManufacturing employment peaked decades earlier than manufacturing production.
November 19, 2023 Are We in a Period of New Union Activism?The bigger effect of unions appears to be how they influence labor markets outside the firms in which they’ve organized.
September 24, 2023 Don’t Expect the UAW to GrowThere is no evidence of a resurgence in the UAW or other industrial unions today.
May 21, 2023 Big Savings for Ending Prevailing WageMy statistical models show that repealing state prevailing wage laws save taxpayers money.
July 1, 2018 Public Sector Union Hurting Municipal GovernmentsUnions flourished when workers were interchangeable.
September 6, 2015 The Future of Industrial UnionsFor much of its history, the American union movement lived and breathed the class struggle dynamic.
September 1, 2013 The Labor Movement in Full CollapseThe early successes of labor unions are partially to blame for their decline today.
September 1, 2013 The Labor Movement in Full CollapseThe early successes of labor unions are partially to blame for their decline today.
September 2, 2012 Labor Day and the Transformation of UnionsOn this weekend it might be good to focus on what has become of the labor movement that once meant so much to America.
February 13, 2012 Time for Labor Unions to ChangeThe passage of right-to-work law didn’t so much kill unions as simply remove them from life support.
January 17, 2012 What to Expect from Right-to-Work Legislation in Indiana...we should expect no effect on manufacturing, for good or ill, in wages or employment as a consequence of RTW.
April 11, 2011 Right to Work LawsThe fastest and easiest way to bust unions is simply let them keep on exterminating themselves.
September 6, 2010 Labor Unions, Trade Unions and Labor DayTrade unions remain strong because they work with, not against the businesses that employ them.
September 6, 2010 Labor Unions, Trade Unions and Labor DayTrade unions remain strong because they work with, not against the businesses that employ them.

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