Description
This database originates in a collective research effort by a group of graduate students and faculty (The World Labor Research Working Group) at the Fernand Braudel Center (Binghamton University) in the 1980s. The outcome of the group’s work was published as a special issue of Review – hereafter referred to as “the special issue” (see Silver, Arrighi, and Dubofsky 1995). The present author subsequently expanded and updated the database produced in the first phase of the project.
How to Cite
APA
Silver, B. (2003). Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511615702
Chicago
Silver, Beverly J. Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511615702.
Appendix
This appendix describes the WLG data collection project including issues of conceptualization, measurement, and data collection procedures (see Silver 1995a in the special issue for a more in-depth treatment of these issues). The next section discusses the conceptualization of labor unrest used by the World Labor Group. The second section discusses measurement issues, the third section discusses data collection procedures, and the fourth section discusses the outcome of various reliability studies. Finally, Appendix B reproduces the data collection instructions used for compiling the WLG database.
Appendix A: The World Labor Group Database: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Data Collection Procedures
Appendix B: Instructions for Recording Data from Indexes