The consequences of union decline

Jake Rosenfeld

doi:10.1017/9781108610070.004

The consequences of union decline

Jake Rosenfeld

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Economic inequality in the United States has reached heights unscaled since before the Great Depression. Today the top 1 percent wealthiest Americans hold nearly 40 percent of the country’s wealth (up from about 20 percent in 1980) and earn over one-fifth of all income (up from about 10 percent in 1980). The doubling of top-end wealth and income inequality has coincided with economic stagnation for millions of American workers, especially men, and especially men without a college education. These troubling trends led President Obama to announce that rising inequality and declining mobility are “the defining challenge[s] of our time.”.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	12-21
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108610070
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108610070.004
State	Published - Jan 1 2019

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