Book chapter

Whose Interests Do Unions Represent? Unionization by Income in Western Europe

Michael Becher, and Jonas Pontusson

Abstract

This paper explores theoretically and empirically whether variation in the distribution of union members across the income distribution affects the role of unions in redistributive politics.

Published in

Comparing European Workers, Emerald Press, vol. 22, Part B: Policies and Institutions, 2011, pp. 181–211