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Public Opinion Quarterly 15:692-702 (1951)
© 1951 American Association for Public Opinion Research

Political Consciousness in a Local Union

JOEL SEIDMAN, JACK LONDON and BERNARD KARSH

Joel Seidman is Associate Professor of Social Science at the University of Chicago
Jack London and Bernard Karsh are research associates in the Industrial Relations Center at the same university

Aside from its obvious function as an instrument of large-scale collective bargaining, the industrial union represents a relatively new and potentially powerful unit of social and political organization, In this article, the authors examine the role and influence of a typical industrial local in a mid-Western city. They conclude that while the local is effective in the area of collective bargaining, both its leaders and membership have as yet not fully recognized the possibility and value of concerted action in other spheres.

An earlier version of this paper was delivered by one of the authors before the Society for Applied Anthropology in June, 1951.


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