An Economics Reading List

Unions

Freedman, Richard and James Medoff, What do Unions Do?


Hoxie, Robert F., “Trade Unionism in the United States,” 1914

    • In 1914, Robert F. Hoxie of the University of Chicago published this seminal article in the

Journal of Political Economy.

    • By characterizing and distinguishing the different kinds of unions, Hoxie made sense of the welter of contradictory views of them. Although he died before he was able to complete his own research agenda, his article created an academic stir and gave rise to the fruitful scientific study of the topic during the 20th century. (See also the

CEE

    • article,

Labor Unions,

    • by Morgan O. Reynolds, for just a few of the results.)

Difficulty Level 1: College