{"id":1250,"date":"2018-04-25T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2018-04-25T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:58:25","slug":"the-state-of-the-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/04\/25\/the-state-of-the-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once upon a time in America, unions were a force to be reckoned with. In 1954, labor union membership in the United States hit a peak of 34.8 percent&#8230;&#8221; So begins a <em>Pacific Standard<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/economics\/the-state-of-the-unions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduction to a series on the status of labor unions in the Unites States<\/a>. &#8220;Today,&#8221; the introduction continues, &#8220;the footprint of unions has shrunk dramatically due to both the general decline of traditionally unionized private-sector industries in this country, and more concerted efforts to weaken unions. In 2017, only 10.7 percent of U.S. workers belonged to a union.&#8221; Check out the site for several additional articles, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/economics\/what-caused-the-decline-of-unions-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;What caused the decline of unions in America?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once upon a time in America, unions were a force to be reckoned with. In 1954, labor union membership in the United States hit a peak of 34.8 percent&#8230;&#8221; So begins a Pacific Standard\u00a0introduction to a series on the status of labor unions in the Unites States. &#8220;Today,&#8221; the introduction continues, &#8220;the footprint of unions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22219],"tags":[29102,3504],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-social-science-research","tag-social-structure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}