Strangers to Their Own Class?

Abstract

The central question addressed is whether constitutional democracy, institutionalized opposition, and radical leadership tend to narrow the vertical social distance between the officers and members of industrial unions. The empirical analysis utilizes data on the Congress of Industrial Organizations unions during the late 1940s. The argument is that both union democracy and radicalism tend to sustain a close identification between workers and their leaders, to enhance their class solidarity, and to minimize the split between them. The analysis shows that officers' salaries and the income differential between their salaries and the workers' wages were far smaller in the democratic unions and in those in the Communist camp than in the oligarchical unions and those in the anti‐Communist camp.

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