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It argues that unions in Canada and Western Europe achieved greater success in organizing beyond traditional strongholds, especially by comparison with the United States. Using professional engineers as a “new” constituency, it compares unionization in the United States and Great Britain to determine whether American engineering unionism failed due to structural features or distinctive political-economic factors.","2-1993  \n# Why American Engineers Aren't Unionized-A ComparativePerspective\n\nPeter F.MeiksinsCleveland State University,p.meiksins@csuohio.edu  \nChris Smith  \nAston University  \nFollow this and additional works at:https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clsoc_crim_facpub  \nPart of the Other Engineering Commons,and the Work,Economy and Organizations CommonsHow does access to this work benefit you?Let us know!  \n## Original Citation\n\nMeiksins,P.,,&Smith,C.(1993).Why American engineers aren't unionized:A comparative perspective.  \nTheory and Society,22(1),57-97.doi:10.1007/BF00993448  \n## Repository Citation\n\nMeiksins,Peter F.and Smith,Chris,\"Why American Engineers Aren't Unionized-A Comparative Perspective\"(1993).Sociology &Criminology Faculty Publications.78.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clsoc_crim_facpub/78  \nThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sociology &Criminology Department atEngagedScholarship@CSU.It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology &Criminology Faculty Publications byan authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU.For more information,please contactlibrary.es@csuohio.edu.  \n## WHY AMERICAN ENGINEERS AREN’T UNIONIZED:A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE\n\nPeter Meiksins,Cleveland State UniversityChris Smith,Aston University  \nThis article was originally published in:  \nMeiksins,Peter and Chris Smith(1993).Why American Engineers Aren't Unionized:a ComparativePerspective.Theory and Society,22,59-97.  \nPost-print standardized by MSL Academic Endeavors,the imprint of the Michael Schwartz Libraryat Cleveland State University,2013  \n## Why American engineers aren't unionized:A comparativeperspective\n\nPETER MEIKSINSa and CHRIS SMITHb  \n“Cleveland State University;bAston University  \nThe decline of organized labor in the United States has stimulated anew interest in comparative research.Explanations of the prolongedstagnation and contraction of the American labor movement that focuson the United States alone run the risk of assuming that the Americancase is \"normal,\"and that the decline of organized labor is a structuralinevitability of advanced capitalism.By broadening their scope toinclude other industrialized countries with similar political economiesand very different labor histories,students of the labor movement willbe better able to identify what is truly distinctive in the American case,and whether it is its distinctiveness or its typicality that accounts for theapparent demise of the American labor movement.  \nOne of the phenomena comparative labor studies reveal is that laborunions in Canada and Western Europe have been much more success-ful than their American counterparts in organizing employees outsideof the traditional strongholds of industrial workers and publicemployees.While this alone may not explain the decline of the Amer-ican labor movement,it certainly has been a factor preventing Amer-ican unions from growing in the post-war period.Thus,one key taskfor students of American organized labor is to account for its relativefailure,when compared to its counterparts in other industrializedcountries,to organize \"new\"constituencies.  \nProfessional and technical workers are among the most important“new”constituencies in question.The changing political economy ofpost-World War II industrial capitalism has been characterized by therapid growth of the high-technology sector and the expansion of pro-fessional and technical employment,both within this sector and inolder,more established industries.In the United States,at least,such  \nworkers have been seen as difficult or impossible to organize,althoughthere has been considerable disagreement as to why this is the case.²  \nIn this 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