What Occupational Safety Tells Us about Political Power in Union Firms
通过测量哪些工人的偏好决定了企业提供的职业安全水平，检验了工会化企业内权力分配的假设。研究发现，资历超过10年的最资深工人和资历不超过3年的新入职工人是主导群体，表明工会追求最资深工人的目标，而管理层则试图设定对流动性更强的工人有吸引力的安全水平。
This article tests hypotheses on the distribution ofpower within unionized firms by measuring which workers 'preferences determine the level offirm-supplied occupational safety. An egalitarian model in which all workers have equal impact can be easily rejected, as can a medianworker model. The dominant groups appear to be the most senior workers with more than ten years of seniority and recently hired workers with three or fewer years of seniority. This suggests that unions pursue the objectives of the most senior workers while management tries to set a safety level that is attractive to the more mobile workers.