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Organized Labor & U.S. Labor Movement

Although not a novel idea, there is significant merit to the notion that organized economic groups play an important role in the process of economic and governmental adjustment. One of the most important of these groups, at least in the modern, industrialized world, and specifically the United States, is organized labor. The American Federation of Labor, for instance, has had the ability to draw and organize several million people together, grouping them into a political and economic force that must be accounted not only as an integral part of the electorate, but as a significant economic identifier and modification process.

This paper will begin with a brief examination of the phenomenon of organized labor, and will then turn to a history of the labor movement in the United States. In looking at case studies in order to determine the economic impact of organized labor, the paper will deal with the wage theory problem, unionism and wages, and inflation and wages. In this analysis, the dichotomous relationship between union and nonunion labor will be addressed, particularly in reference to the scholarship of H. Gregg Lewis. Finally, the paper will conclude with a concise assessment of the role of organized labor on the American economy.

One scholar began his work with the notation that, "the history of the American work force is a complex and fascinating story of the men and women who provided much of the physical and mental power essential to the development of the highly productive economy of the United States." That the composition of labor consists of a myriad of different types of work, people, and occupations is a given, however it must be remembered from the start that any discussion of labor within a geopolitical unit must use the labor factor of the size of the total population and the manner in which people engage in labor intensive activity in order to assess the economic indicators of labor.

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