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For an excellent example of the legalistic and historical approach to the study of unions, see William M. Leiserson, American Trade Union Democracy, New York, Columbia University Press, 1959.

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The author was employed by the Central Labor Council A.F.L.-C.I.O. of Lawrence, Kansas, in a staff capacity and subsequently was a research fellow with Community Studies, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, researching labour union political behaviour.

Arnold S. Tannenbaum and Robert L. Kahn , Participation in Union Locals, Evanston, Illinois, Row Peterson and Company, 1958, p. 198.

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Joel Seidman , et al., The Worker Views His Union, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1958, p. 273.

Sumner H. Slicter , "Social Control of Industrial Relations", in Bloom, Northrup , and Rowan (eds.), Readings in Labor Economics, Homewood, Illinois, Richard B. Irwin, Inc., 1963, p. 676.

W. Lloyd Warner and J.O. Lowe , The Social System of the Modern Factory, Vol. IV of The Yankee City Series, New Haven, Yale University Press , 1947, Chapters 3 and 7.