TY - BOOK AU - Vernon,Guy TI - Does density matter?: the significance of comparative historical variation in unionization SN - 09596801 AV - HD8371 EUR PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - sage KW - Union membership KW - Employment relations KW - 1960-2000 N2 - This article reviews the variations in aggregate union density in fifteen industrialized societies over the period 1960-2000. Drawing critically on a range of literatures, it argues that density is a valuable if imperfect expression of the weight of the infrastructure of joint regulation. Whilst density levels cannot express the character or anatomy of this regulation, they broadly depict the constraints imposed on managerial prerogative by routinized joint regulation UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680106065040 ER -