PUBLIC EXPENDITURE CUTS AND JOB LOSS: A UNION RESPONSE
基于对英国公共部门工会成员的调查，研究了1979-1980年政府削减支出导致失业的过程，以及工会如何应对管理决策，发现工会抵抗相对稀少，部分原因是“工作侵蚀”式的失业。
ABSTRACT 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’.