A Tale of Two Cities: Employer and Trade Union Responses to Local Government Retrenchment in Britain
A Tale of Two Cities: Employer and Trade Union Responses to Local Government Retrenchment in Britain
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两个城市的故事：雇主和工会对英国地方政府紧缩的反应
DOI：
10.4000/sdt.544
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
0.2
通讯作者：
Alexandra Stroleny
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作者：
S. Bach;Alexandra Stroleny
本文考察了英国当地雇主和工会在应对紧缩措施时所面临的策略和困境。通过对两个地方政府的案例研究，本文扩展了战略选择分析，强调了地方行动者使用支持紧缩和反紧缩框架来推进其战略。我们对紧缩政策的主流解释提出质疑，认为它标志着新自由主义的胜利，在这种解释中，保守党和工党委员会在外包和减薪方面采取了类似的政策，因此没有行使战略选择的余地。我们的研究结果将紧缩视为实践和意识形态，并表明雇主和工会在地方层面的不同反应。这些不同的结果突显了各国之间和各国内部对经济危机的不同政策反应。
This paper examines the strategies and dilemmas faced by local employers and trade unions in Britain in responding to austerity measures. Drawing on two local authority case studies this paper extends strategic choice analysis highlighting the use of pro-austerity and anti-austerity frames by local actors to advance their strategies. We challenge the dominant interpretation of austerity as signalling the triumph of neo-liberalism in which there is no scope for the exercise of strategic choice with the assumption Conservative and Labour councils pursue similar policies of outsourcing and wage cuts. Our findings consider austerity as practice as well as ideology and indicate variable responses at local level by employers and trade unions. These differentiated outcomes underline the divergent policy responses to the economic crisis between and within countries.