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What Workers Want Or What Labor Experts Want Them To Want?, Harry G. Hutchison

Harry G. Hutchison

Richard B. Freeman & Joel Rodgers, offer an important addition to the industrial relations literature. This work is grounded in survey methodology. The authors’ original thesis, premised on the Worker Representation and Participation Study (WRPS) which Freeman & Rogers designed more than ten years ago, concludes that there is “a large gap between the kind and extent of representation and participation workers had and what they desired.” The updated edition of their book, “What Workers Want,” does not present new or innovative polling or original empirical research directed by the authors. Instead, much of the new data cited comes from …