The Positional Power of American Labor, 1963-1977
扩展了Perrone的劳工职位权力概念,将其定义为经济中相互关联的生产部门间的结构性关系,并测量了三个维度(上游、下游和本地生产中断能力)对劳工组织能力、斗争性和经济地位的影响。
This paper extends Perrone's conceptualization of positional power of labor and investigates its impact on three labor outcomes. We conceptualize positional power as embedded in the structural relations among interconnected spheres of production in the economy. We maintain that positional power is a threedimensional construct. It entails (1) the ability of workers in a given industry to disrupt operations of other industries upstream in the production process, (2) the ability to disrupt operations downstream in the production process, and (3) the ability to disrupt production locally within their own industry. After developing new measures of these three dimensions from interindustry input-output flow matrices, we estimate the impact of positional power on three labor outcomes: (a) labor's organizational capacity, (b) labor militancy, and (c) labor's economic standing. Our findings suggest that positional power positively influences all three of these dimensions. We discuss the significance of these results for future research.