| List of Figures | |
| List of Tables | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| 1 | Class Power, Market Power, and the Comparative Method | 3 |
| 2 | Variation in Union Membership | 14 |
| 3 | Labor Market Centralization | 29 |
| 4 | The Ghent System | 50 |
| 5 | Political Parties and Trade Unions | 66 |
| 6 | Cross-Sectional Analysis of Union Density | 87 |
| 7 | The Business Cycle and Union Growth | 102 |
| 8 | The Structure of Labor Markets | 122 |
| 9 | Introducing the Decline of Unions in the 1980s | 143 |
| 10 | Power, Efficiency, and Institutional Change | 156 |
| 11 | Globalization, Institutional Change, and Union Decline in the 1980s | 176 |
| 12 | Conclusion | 193 |
| Appendix: Data and Methods | 199 |
| Bibliography | 205 |
| Index | 223 |
