Size of Locals and Union Democracy

Abstract

Various studies suggest that the size of local unions affects the nature of internal political processes at both the local and the national union level. Data collected from delegates to the 1959 Constitutional Convention of the UAW indicate that large locals contribute more to democratic processes in the national union. The data also suggest that small locals may be less democratic internally than large locals but raise some questions regarding the applicability of customary indexes of democracy to small local unions.

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