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National and District Systems of Collective Bargaining in the United States

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  • George E. Barnett

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I. Rapid increase of systems of collective bargaining after 1897, 425. — List of systems established and terminated from 1898 to 1911, 427. — II. Success or failure of these systems to some extent independent of the character of the system, 429. — Classification of systems on basis of area of wage rates, 431. — Greater success of systems under which national or district rates are fixed, 433. — III. Desire of employers to bring working rules of national union under joint determination, 435. — Difficulty of achieving this under systems in which only local rates are fixed, 438. — IV. Tendencies favoring establishment of national and district rates of wages, 440. — Circumstances under which systems with only local rates may succeed, 443.

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  • George E. Barnett, 1912. "National and District Systems of Collective Bargaining in the United States," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 26(3), pages 425-443.
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    1. Schnell, John F., 1979. "Collective Bargaining and Market Structure in Bituminous Coal: Three Stages of Evolutionary Relations," Miscellaneous Series 257749, Pennsylvania State University.
    2. Geraghty, Thomas M. & Wiseman, Thomas, 2008. "Wage strikes in 1880s America: A test of the war of attrition model," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 45(4), pages 303-326, September.
    3. Geraghty, Thomas M. & Wiseman, Thomas, 2011. "Conflict and compromise: Changes in U.S. strike outcomes, 1880 to 1945," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 48(4), pages 519-537.

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