10.7 % of the united states labor force is currently unionized.
what percentage of the united states labor force is currently unionized?
10.7 %
as of 2014, 71.8% of the population over the age of 16 was in the labor force. 0.1% was in the armed forces, and 71.7% was in the civilian labor force with 68.1% being employed and 3.7% unemployed. the composition, by occupation, of the employed civilian labor force was: 53.0% in management, business, science, and arts; 26.2% in sales and office occupations; 11.3% in service occupations; 4.0% in natural resources, construction, and maintenance; 5.5% in production, transportation, and material moving. the three industries employing the largest percentages of the working civilian labor force were: educational services, health care, and social assistance (22.5%); professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services (17.4%); and retail trade (10.7%). sprint is the largest employer in the city followed by shawnee mission school district, johnson county community college, blue valley school district, black & veatch, optumrx, the city of overland park, yrc worldwide, overland park regional medical center, and waddell & reed.
overland park, kansas
there has been controversy about the significance of world war ii to the increase of women in the workplace. william chafe in 1972 called the war a "watershed event" forcing a change in attitudes about women in the workforce. however women were also employed during world war i, and no such change in attitude occurred after that. by 1950 the portion of all women in the labor force was down to 32%, but married women had joined in extraordinary numbers over the previous decade, with most age groups increasing their labor participation by an unprecedented 10 percentage points. claudia goldin used gladys palmer’s retrospective surveys of women and men’s work history from 1940 to 1951 to track changes in weeks worked and labor force participation rate and correlated that with states’ mobilization rates. world war ii mobilization had little impact on the long term labor force participation of women without a high school diploma, however it appears to have had some positive effect on the long term participation of more highly educated white women, especially those who were married during the war.
women in the united states labor force from 1945 to 1950