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During the last two decades of the twentieth century, there was an almost complete consensus in the social science literature that labor movements were in a general and severe crisis. Declining strike activity and other overt expressions of labor militancy (Screpanti 1987; Shalev 1992), falling union densities (Western 1995; Griffin, McCammon, and Botsko 1990) and shrinking real wages and growing job insecurity (Bluestone and Harrison 1982; Uchitelle and Kleinfeld 1996) were among the trends documented. The bulk of the empirical literature focused on trends in wealthy countries (especially North America and Western Europe), yet many saw the crisis as world-scale, adversely affecting labor and labor movements around the globe.
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During the last two decades of the twentieth century, there was an almost complete consensus in the social science literature that labor movements were in a general and severe crisis. Declining strike activity and other overt expressions of labor militancy (Screpanti 1987; Shalev 1992), falling union densities (Western 1995; Griffin, McCammon, and Botsko 1990) and shrinking real wages and growing job insecurity (Bluestone and Harrison 1982; Uchitelle and Kleinfeld 1996) were among the trends documented. The bulk of the empirical literature focused on trends in wealthy countries (especially North America and Western Europe), yet many saw the crisis as world-scale, adversely affecting labor and labor movements around the globe.
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