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PUBLIC EXPENDITURE CUTS AND JOB LOSS: A UNION RESPONSE
Author(s) -
Fatchett Derek,
Ogden Stuart G.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1984.tb00232.x
Subject(s) - job loss , job security , context (archaeology) , government (linguistics) , public sector , labour economics , economics , political science , unemployment , economic growth , work (physics) , economy , geography , engineering , archaeology , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy
This article is based upon the findings of a survey which was directed at assessing the response of a public sector union to job loss amongst its members. The study was prompted by the anticipated effects on the union of cuts in public expenditure announced by Mrs. Thatcher's Government in 1979 and 1980. The purpose of the survey was, first, to investigate the processes through which job loss occurred and, secondly, to examine the ways in which the union contested those managerial decisions that affected the job security of its members. The main conclusion of the paper is that union resistance has been relatively sparse and it is suggested that this may be in part explained by the way in which job loss occurred. Of particular importance in this context is the loss of jobs through what we have called ‘job erosion’.