TY - BOOK AU - Lipset,Seymour Martin AU - Meltz,Noah M. AU - Gómez,Rafael AU - Kochan,Thomas A. TI - The paradox of American unionism: why Americans like unions more than Canadians do, but join much less SN - 0801442001 AV - HD 6508 L767p 2004 U1 - 331.880973 PY - 2004/// CY - Ithaca, London PB - ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press KW - Labor union members KW - United States KW - Labor unions KW - Canada KW - Sindicalistas KW - Estados Unidos KW - Sindicatos KW - Canadá N1 - Includes bibliographical references: ( p.[ 211]- 220) and index; Paradoxes, anomalies and hypotheses -- Union density in a cross-national context -- The evolution of trade unions in the United States and Canada: the emergence of "the gap" in union density -- Social democratic Canada/free market United States -- Attitudes and values: an inverted relationship -- Frustrated demand: more Americans want to join unions -- The contribution of states and provinces to the unionization gap -- Unions among professionals and other white-collar workers in the United States -- Unions among professionals and other white-collar workers in Canada -- Estimates of non-union employee representation: how different are the two countries? -- The legacy of differing cultural and political histories on unionization -- Appendix I. Union membership and union density estimates: methodology and comparability -- Appendix II. Transcript of survey on attitudes toward work UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003024992.html ER -