"Through collective mobilization outside the workplace, unions leveraged electoral institutions and historic patterns of wage setting at the local level to tip the balance of power on the tripartite wage councils in their favor." https://t.co/7YathUdjo7
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"It was through politics—not striving for consensus behind closed doors at the negotiating table—that unions altered the balance of power in their favor." https://t.co/7YathUdjo7
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As a recent P&S article shows, Indonesia’s volatile wage councils provide a dramatic example of how weak unions can make gains through political mobilization. https://t.co/7YathUdjo7
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"As organized labor becomes ever weaker by conventional measures, the Indonesian case provides an intriguing example of how unions can mobilize locally to gain some power." https://t.co/7YathUdjo7