Organization matters: Trade union behavior during peace and war

Different from British unions, German unions chose a centralized structure because they faced new large employer organizations. * A coordination game is used to study organizational choice and its implications. * During World War I, trade unions had to bargain with the government. * Fractionalized British unions went on strike and bargained individually asking mostly for wage increases. * Centralized German unions supported the government's war effort and, in exchange, achieved codetermination and the establishment of the Employment Agency. This paper employs a comparative institutional analys... Mehr ...