CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
The Decline in Unionization
IN 1945 ALMOST 40 PERCENT of the American labor force was unionized. By 1977 the percentage had fallen to 26 percent. (1981 note: And in 1981 it was down to 20 percent or less.)
In 1945 practically the entire union membership was in the private sector, in which unionization approached 50 percent. Since then, the great growth of union membership has been in public-service employment—in government, in hospitals, in schools, and so on.
In the private sector, therefore, at most one of every six employees is a union member and membership is heavily concentrated in mature if not declining industries. ( ...
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