caa a22 4500 386342164 CHVBK 20180307111756.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1962401 doi S0003055400083337 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1962401 Wallerstein Michael University of California, Los Angeles Union Organization in Advanced Industrial Democracies [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Wallerstein] I suggest a new explanation of cross-national differences in unionization rates: the size of the labor force. Size matters because the gains unions are able to achieve in collective bargaining depend on the proportion of substitutable workers who are organized, while the costs of organizing depend in part on the absolute number to be recruited. The comparison of the costs and benefits of organizing new workers yields the conclusion that unions in larger labor markets will accept lower levels of unionization. Statistical analysis of cross-national differences in unionization rates among advanced industrial societies in the late 1970s indicates that the size of the labor force and the cumulative participation of leftist parties in government explain most of the variance. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/2(1989-06), 481-501 0003-0554 83:2<481 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1962401 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1962401 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wallerstein Michael University of California, Los Angeles NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/2(1989-06), 481-501 0003-0554 83:2<481 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge