ON LABOR'S RIGHT TO STRIKE |
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| Authors: | Earl A. Thompson |
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| Affiliation: | *University of California, Los Angeles. The author benefitted from comments on earlier drafts by Professor Ron Batchelder, Roger Faith, Matt Lindsay, and several referees. Helpful discussions of actual union-management negotiation processes were provided by Professors Bruce Herrick, Dan Mitchell, and Mike Ward. |
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| Abstract: | This paper first shows that, under certain conditions, strikes benefit capital at the expense of union labor in the aggregate. It is then argued that observed variations in strikes and labor's right to strike are largely explainable by variations in the profitability of strikes to capital and not explainable by popular alternative hypotheses purporting to explain the existence of strikes. Finally, an explanation is offered for the persistence of labor's right to strike over time and across various political systems. |
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