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The non-pecuniary contributions of labor unions to their members

Author

Wayman Wesley Steed, University of the Pacific

Date of Award

1957

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Department

Economics

Abstract

Do unions make non-pecuniary contributions to their members? Are these contributions regarded by the members to be of sufficient importance to justify, at times, the unions existence?

This paper will consider the non-pecuniary contributions of labor unions to their members in an effort to ascertain their merit as an answer to the union leader’s dilemma.

The writer would like to make it very clear that his thought is not to consider the possibility of a complete substitution of non-cost gains for those which do cost the employer. It is expected that wages will continue to be raised as the rise in average productivity makes this possible. The substitution considered is in those cases in which the best judgment union leaders might be over born by the membership’s demand for service from their union in pecuniary form - perhaps because, though erroneously, it was the only type of union service they had learned to recognize.

Pages

109

Recommended Citation

Steed, Wayman Wesley. (1957). The non-pecuniary contributions of labor unions to their members. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1361