Fostering Solidarity: How Labor Unions Can Engender Sympathy for Striking Workers

• In Event: Market, Informal Economy and What Lies Ahead

Brief Overview

In this paper, we use survey experiments in Mexico and Colombia to study public support for labor strikes. We find that the public shows greater sympathy for private-sector strikes and those against multinational corporations.

Authors

• Mart Trasberg, Tecnologico de Monterrey

• Christopher Chambers-Ju, University of California, Berkeley