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Labor Movements and Unions

Labor Movements and Unions is a research topic within Public Administration. Science Explorer counts 42k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on labor relations, union revitalization, collective bargaining, and the impact of globalization on trade unions. It explores topics such as worker participation, employee voice, employer resistance to unionism, and the changing dynamics of workplace governance in the context of global economic shifts.

  • Union Revitalization
  • Labor Movement
  • Employee Voice
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Trade Unions
  • Industrial Relations
  • Worker Participation
  • Globalization
  • Employer Resistance
  • Workplace Governance
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Labor Movements and Unions

Which countries lead Labor Movements and Unions research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 507 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 507 works
  3. 3 Germany 343 works
  4. 4 Australia 269 works
  5. 5 Canada 225 works
  6. 6 France 181 works
  7. 7 Italy 144 works
  8. 8 India 134 works
  9. 9 China 124 works
  10. 10 Brazil 103 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 34.8%United Kingdom: 16.3%Germany: 11.0%Australia: 8.6%6 others listed: 29.3%35%largest
United States1,083 · 34.8%United Kingdom507 · 16.3%Germany343 · 11.0%Australia269 · 8.6%6 others listed910 · 29.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Labor Movements and Unions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Labor Movements and Unions research, followed by The University of Melbourne and Cornell University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 57 works
  2. 2 The University of MelbourneAustralia 47 works
  3. 3 Cornell UniversityUnited States 33 works
  4. 4 The University of SydneyAustralia 28 works
  5. 5 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 26 works
  6. 6 University of BristolUnited Kingdom 25 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 24 works
  8. 8 York UniversityCanada 22 works
  9. 9 City University of New YorkUnited States 21 works
  10. 10 University of CanberraAustralia 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Labor Movements and Unions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Labor Movements and Unions include George Davey Smith, Andrei Shleifer and Anselm L. Strauss.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  3. 3 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  4. 4 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  5. 5 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  6. 6 Christopher D. Manning United States 179k citations
  7. 7 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  8. 8 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  9. 9 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Labor Movements and Unions?

The most cited paper in Labor Movements and Unions is "HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES:" (Joan R. Acker, 1990), with 7,338 citations. Next come "Men and Women of the Corporation" (6,493) and "Concluding Remarks" (5,867).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES: Joan R. Acker · Gender & Society Jun 1990 7,338
2 Men and Women of the Corporation Mary Anne Devanna · The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science Apr 1978 6,493
3 Concluding Remarks Gail Hutchinson · Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 1957 5,867
4 Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics William A. Gamson, Sidney Tarrow · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews May 1999 3,923
5 Inequality Regimes Joan R. Acker · Gender & Society 30 Jun 2006 3,382
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Where is Labor Movements and Unions research done?

The largest centres of Labor Movements and Unions research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (United States) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 131 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 86 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 80 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 66 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 61 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 55 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 54 works
  8. 8 BerlinGermany 42 works
  9. 9 CanberraAustralia 42 works
  10. 10 CopenhagenDenmark 39 works
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Where is the best place to study Labor Movements and Unions?

Among universities, judged by research, Scuola Normale Superiore, The University of Melbourne and London School of Economics and Political Science score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 17.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Scuola Normale Super…University of TorontoLondon School of Eco…The University of Me…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Scuola Normale SuperioreItaly 67.424.7%42.8×10 +107.2%
2The University of MelbourneAustralia 67.18.5%10.7×47 +60.3%
3London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 63.214.2%20.5×19 +60.7%
4University of TorontoCanada 60.918.1%2.9×24 +26.0%
5University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 60.525.6%5.0×17 -10.3%
6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 57.817.6%3.7×18 +18.5%
7Cornell UniversityUnited States 57.310.5%6.2×33 +5.1%
8University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 55.915.9%6.6×15 +9.8%
9University of OsloNorway 55.116.0%4.9×12 +36.2%
10University of CopenhagenDenmark 55.123.4%3.1×12 +16.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Labor Movements and Unions, country by country

Is Labor Movements and Unions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014. The fastest-growing topics are Labor Movements and Unions.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Labor Movements and Unions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Labor Movements and Unions0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Labor Movements and Unions over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Labor Movements and Unions10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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