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One Hundred Years of Strike Statistics: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Quantitative Strike Research

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This study reviews the two main streams of quantitative research on the determinants of aggregate strike activity over time and across countries: the economic approach and the organizational/political approach. Economists have demonstrated that strike activity is linked to the business cycle, and sociologists and political scientists have shown that it is linked in the longer term to workers' organizational capacity and political position in national power structures. The author, however, points out unresolved contradictions among the empirical findings, and a lack of integration between the economic and organizational/political approaches. Furthermore, he argues that scholars' almost exclusive reliance on official strike statistics, which convey only limited information, has prevented them from investigating some important basic questions about strikes, such as what causes strike “waves.â€

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  • Roberto Franzosi, 1989. "One Hundred Years of Strike Statistics: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Quantitative Strike Research," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 42(3), pages 348-362, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:42:y:1989:i:3:p:348-362
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    1. Adler, Martin W. & van Ommeren, Jos N., 2016. "Does public transit reduce car travel externalities? Quasi-natural experiments' evidence from transit strikes," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(C), pages 106-119.
    2. Symeonidis, George, 2017. "Does product market competition increase strike activity? Evidence from the UK," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 42-56.
    3. McGuire, James W., 1992. "The Causes of Strikes in Argentina, 1984-1991," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series qt3f3824xq, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.
    4. Stefan Houpt & Juan Carlos Rojo Cagigal, 2012. "‘You can't start a fire without a spark’: strikes and class struggle in the Basque Country, 1914-36," Working Papers 12012, Economic History Society.
    5. Borrel, Monique, 1992. "The Impact of Labor Disputes on the Fabric of French Society From 1950 to the Mid-80's0," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series qt3mq3b9wt, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.
    6. Andy Hodder & Mark Williams & John Kelly & Nick McCarthy, 2017. "Does Strike Action Stimulate Trade Union Membership Growth?," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 55(1), pages 165-186, March.

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