Union Democracy
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This article is about the book. For the labor movement philosophy, see Union democracy.
Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union is a book by Seymour Martin Lipset, Martin Trow and James S. Coleman, originally published by New York Free Press in 1956.
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Free Press |
Publication date | 1956 |
Pages | 455 |
ISBN | 978-0-02-919210-8 |
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The book is a case study of one particular organization: the International Typographical Union, an organization seen by the authors as the most democratic one in the contemporary (1950s) United States; an organization that seemingly disproved Robert Michels' Iron law of oligarchy.