Updated July 20, 2006

Selected Publications

Books

The Twilight of the Old Unionism. M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios. CCH. Annual.
Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining. M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
The Twilight of Unionism? Pittsburgh, PA: Allegheny Institute for Public Policy, 1997. (Report No. 97-11)
Canadian Unionism: The Meaning, and the Measure, the Reality and the Myth. Vancouver, BC: The Fraser Institute, 1995.
The New Unionism in the New Society. George Mason University Press, 1994.
The NEA and AFT Teacher Unions In Power and Politics. Education Policy Institute, 1994. (With Charlene Haar and Mryon Lieberman)

Selected Articles

Freedom of Choice, Business Climates, and Right to Work Laws, National Institute for Labor Relations Research, April 2006.
Has Scandinavia Escaped the American Disease - Union Decline? 61st International Atlantic Economic Conference, Berlin, Germany, 15-19 March 2006.
The Reality Behind the AFL-CIO Split: Farce and Greek Tragedy. BusinessNevada v. 1, no. 30, September 15, 2005.
Have Scandinavian countries escaped union decline?. 13th Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association, Aalborg, Denmark, 26-29 June 2005.
International Convergence in Unions' Trade Union and Political Functions. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 26-28 August 2004.
Are Municipal Collective Bargaining and Municipal Governance Compatible? University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law v. 5, no. 3, Spring 2003, pp. 453-85.
Is the Future of Unionism in Cyberspace? Journal of Labor Research, v. 24, no. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 257-70.
The Transformations of the American Union Movement: A Brave New World? International Employment Relations Review v 8, no. 2, 2002. (abstract)
Unions and the Internet. Employment Relations in the New Economy: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association, Malaysia and Singapore. International Employment Relations Association, July 2001.
Twilight for Organized Labor. Journal of Labor Research, v. 22, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 245-59.
American Union Statistics: Profile, Sources and Uses Employment Relations Record v. 1, no. 1, 2001. (abstract)
U.S. and Canadian Industrial Relations Systems, Convergent or Divergent? Industrial Relations (Berkeley), v. 39, no. 4, October 2000, pp. 695-713.
Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining, WorkingUSA, v. 3, no. 5, 2000, pp. 102-34.
The New Unionism and the New Politics: Public Sector Unions Use New Clout to Influence Public Policy, Labor Watch, April 2000.
The Philosophies of American and Canadian Unions, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, v. 9, 1999, pp. 125-151. (A winner of the 1999 AILR/IRRA Best Papers competition.)
New Labor Relations in a New Millennium, Journal of Commerce, September 3, 1999, pg. 8. (Editorial)
'Leo Wolman,' American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Commentary on Freeman & Rogers, What do Workers Want? in Employee Representation in the Emerging Workplace: Alternatives/Supplements to Collective Bargaining, Proceedings of New York University 50th Annual Conference on Labor. Samuel Estreicher, ed. Cambridge, MA: Kluwer Law International, 1999, pp. 33-38.
Philosophy of Unions, Journal of Commerce, September 4, 1998, p. 5A.
The UPS Strike: Labor Tilts at Windmills, Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, n. 1165, March 20, 1998.
Unions 'Charge' Into the 21st Century, Wall Street Journal, March 18, 1997, pg. A22. (Editorial)
Will Private Sector Unions Begin to Grow Again? CQ Researcher, v. 6, no. 24, June 28, 1996, p. 569. (With Charles B. Craver)
Has Public Sector Labor Topped Out? What is the Clinton Administration Doing About It? Government Union Review, v. 17 n. 2, 1996, pp. 1-40.
Private-sector unionism weakens ..., Wall Street Journal, September 1, 1995, pg. A6.
Sacred Cows and Trojan Horses: The Dunlop Commission Report, Regulation: The Cato Review of Business & Government v. 18 n. 1, 1995.
North American Unionism: Trends and Outlook, Fraser Forum April 1995.
The End of Unionism: A Reappraisal. Society, v. 32, March/April 1995, pp. 27-33.

Quotations and References

Seligman, Dan. Who's Leo Troy? Driving the AFL-CIO Crazy, Forbes, November 1, 1999, pp. 102 ff.
in a commentary on union membership in the Southeast Missourian. (October 10, 2005)
in an article on government union membership on Human Events Online. (September 28, 2005)
in a news item on the decline of union membership in the Washington Post. (March 7, 2005, A02)
in a discussion on union membership from the Newspaper Guild. (January 14, 2005)
in an article, Do Americans Support Labor Unions? in the Labor Watch newsletter. (June 2004)
in an op-ed piece on labor representation in the Detroit News. (May 20, 2004)
in an issue brief on socialism in America from the Nevada Policy Research Institute. (February 23, 2004)
in another issue brief on public sector unions from the Nevada Policy Research Institute. (February 16, 2004)
in an article on the AFL-CIO in the New York Times. (August 29, 2003, A16)
in a conference report on the Future of Labor Unions at the University of Texas at Austin. (April 24, 2003)
in an Issue Brief on Government unions from the National Taxpayers Union. (August 7, 2002)
in a policy brief on union political spending from Americans for Tax Reform. (February 4, 2002)
in an essay on labor unions in the Web edition of the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. December 2001.
in a Financial Times story on the Democrats, reprinted at TownHall.com. (December 2001)
in an essay on campaign finance reform from the Capital Research Center. (April 2001)
in a statement on union dues from the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee. (March 20, 2001)
phone interview published in Reason Online. (January 2001)
in an article in the Village Voice on the NYU graduate assistants. (December 2000)
in an article on campaign finance from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. (September/October 2000)
in a news story from Cox Newspapers on the 2000 Presidential campaign. (September 4, 2000)
in a profile published by Rutgers Focus. (February 25, 2000)
in an analytical report from Congresional Quarterly on CNN's AllPolitics site. (March 28, 1998)
in a paper on union dues from the Employment Policy Foundation. (December 1996)
on the Lehrer Newshour on PBS, briefly. (September 2, 1996)
on "Think Tank" from PBS, on the state of the unions. (November 3, 1995)
The End of Unionism, a summary of published research. (1994)
in an article in The American Prospect on unionism. (Summer 1993)

Congressional Testimony

"Disclosure of Political Activities of Tax Exempt Organizations" -- Hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means, June 20, 2000.

"Compelled Political Speech" -- Hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration, April 12, 2000.

U.S. Congress, House Oversight Committee, "Influencing Elections: Political Activity of Labor Unions," hearings, 104th Cong., 2nd sess., Mar. 19, 1996 (Washington: GPO, 1996), pp. 32-36.

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