Union Democracy

Union Democracy
Authors
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFree Press
Publication date
1956
Publication placeUnited States
Pages455
ISBN978-0-02-919210-8

Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union is a book by Seymour Martin Lipset, Martin Trow and James S. Coleman, originally published by New York Free Press in 1956.

The book is a case study of one particular organization: the International Typographical Union, an organization seen by the authors as the most democratic one in the contemporary (1950s) United States; an organization that seemingly disproved Robert Michels' Iron law of oligarchy.