PurposeThe purpose of this editorial is to introduce the special issue on "Collective worker responses to redundancy and restructuring".Design/methodology/approachThe editorial provides an overview and introduces the papers which make up the special issue.FindingsThe six papers facilitate a deeper understanding of the issues and dynamics involved in worker resistance and response to the crisis of neo‐liberal capitalism.Originality/valueThe paper highlights how the papers in the special issue add new insights into the topics at hand.
PurposeThis paper aims to examine the more militant response of a minority of workers to collective redundancy and restructuring in Britain since 2007.Design/methodology/approachThe paper deploys secondary sources to develop a series of grounded micro‐factors to help explain the presence and absence of the deployment of the occupation tactic.FindingsSome headway is made in explaining why only a limited number of occupations took place against redundancy and restructuring.Practical implicationsThe method of occupation was not shown to be as effective as might have been thought in opposing redundancies.Social implicationsThese concern union strategies and tactics for resistance to redundancy and restructuring.Originality/valueThe paper provides a grounded explanation of the phenomenon and incidence of worker occupations against collective redundancy and closure.
Contents: 1. The politics of labour, work and employment / Gregor Gall -- Part I: Foundations for understanding the politics of labour, work and employment -- 2. A theoretical framework for labour, work, and employment research / Bruce E. Kaufman -- 3. Pre- and post-capitalist labour, work and employment / Neil Davidson -- 4. Labour, work and employment in the age of globalised neo-liberalism / Jason Heyes and Thomas Hastings -- 5. The neo-liberal state and the regulation of class relations / Chris Howell -- 6. Different types of societal regulation - coordinated market economy, social democracy, aspiration of worker control / Greg Patmore -- 7. The politics and diversity of worker representation: the increasing fluidity and challenge of representation / Miguel Martínez Lucio and Stephen Mustchin -- 8. Employers and their representatives: discretion, power, markets, and managers in the transformation of twenty first century work / Gerald Friedman -- 9. Juridification in industrial relations / Alan Bogg -- 10. The moral economy: flexible employment and layers of disconnection / Sharon C. Bolton and Knut Laaser -- Part II: Aspects of the politics of labour, work and employment -- 11. Managing labour and the labour process / Bill Harley -- 12. Who manages the managers? / Graham Sewell -- 13. Beyond the workplace: how civil society organisations attempt to exercise regulatory influence over work and employment / Steve Williams and Brian Abbott -- 14. Types of work and labour / Rachel Lara Cohen -- 15. Non-standard work and non-standard workers / Vicki Smith and Brian Halpin -- 16. Non-remunerated work / Colin C Williams -- 17. Skills and the social value of work / Patricia Findlay -- 18. The expansion of the labour market and the politics of migration / Gabriella Alberti -- 19. Gender segregation and labour market institutions / Siobhan Austen, Therese Jefferson and Linley Lord -- 20. Labour market, work and employment segregation by race / Steve Jefferys -- 21. Training and development - whose interests are being served? / Mark Stuart -- 22. Kinship and community networks / Robert MacKenzie, Zyama Ciupijus and Chris Forde -- Index.
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This book describes and analyses the impact of the 2007-2008 financial crisis upon the working conditions of employees in the financial services sector in Britain. It tells the story of workers being made to pay the price for a crisis that was not of their own making, but nevertheless caused a deleterious impact on their employment security, remuneration and working conditions. Evidence of fighting back against this has been sparse so that the response of employees is best characterised as 'fright' (grudgingly working harder and longer), 'flight' (leaving the sector through redundancy), and 'falling in line' (accepting the diktat of performance managements systems). Through this book we learn the reasons behind this acquiescence, with its detailed attention to topics such as the stunted development of labour unionism, the prevalence of union-management partnerships, and the occurrence of employment insecurity and labour shedding. Providing a valuable insight into the effects of the financial crash, Employment Relations in Financial Services will be useful to academics, students and also trade unionists.
