Along with their political clout, unions’ intellectual respectability is also experiencing a renaissance. After decades of vilification by economists for raising unemployment and strangling growth, the union movement is now receiving backing from thought leaders such as Paul Krugman, who argues that stronger unions are needed to counter globalization’s worst excesses.
工会在智识上的受尊敬程度与其政治影响力一样在复苏。几十年来，经济学家们诽谤说工会增加了失业并限制增长。现在，工会运动则得到了思想界人士例如格鲁格曼的支持。他们说人们需要更为强大的工会来对抗全球化最为糟糕的方面。