Description:
Legitimacy is vital to unions. Without it, they lose political and ideological support, members, and access to funds. Gary Chaison and Barbara Bigelow use the concept of legitimacy as a lens through which to understand the steady decline in union size.
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Gary Chaison and Barbara Bigelow present a fresh and lucid discussion of legitimacy as it applies to labor unions and their role in society. The authors note that unions can attain legitimacy even though their efforts in a particular situation fail. They also make the point that successful pragmatic efforts often have a moral dimension as well.
--Joy K. Reynolds "Monthly Labor Review"