Impact of Communist Parties on the Individual Decision to Join a Trade Union: Evidence From India
Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact on individual decisions to unionize of several factors: the reach of communist parties, the degree of political activism, personal attributes of workers, and industrial characteristics. The workers examined are Indian nonagricultural regular workers, using micro‐data from the 2004–5 Employment and Unemployment Survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation, linked to state‐level factors. A notable result is that the reach of communist parties has considerable effect on unionization probability. Moreover, it seems that the mere existence of communist parties in a state also facilitates unionization to some extent. State‐level political activism and unemployment rate also influence the individual decision to join a union. The paper concludes also that a worker's gender, marital status, ethnic background, employment status, experience, occupation, sector of employment, establishment size, and type of industry remain important in the determination of union membership.
Source: The Developing Economies
Author: Rupayan PAL
Institution: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Language: English
Topic: Labor Movements and Unions
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1536002078