How Did Workplaces Respond to Recession?

Amossé, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Petit, Héloïse

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57419-0_7

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“…In both cases, trade unions give little support to wage adjustments, either directly (through trade union presence) or indirectly (via bargaining in Great Britain). In this same vein, Amossé, Bryson and Petit (2016) show that trade union presence before the crisis, from 2004 to 2005, in both France and Great Britain (measured in terms of trade union recognition in Great Britain), is associated with smaller wage cuts and fewer wage freezes when the crisis hit. As already suggested above, these findings may illustrate the fact that wage adjustments, where they occurred, were conducted implicitly rather than explicitly.…”

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Industrial relations and adjustments to the crisis: A comparative micro‐statistical analysis of France and Great Britain

Amossé

Askenazy

Chevalier

et al. 2019

International Labour Review

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In this comparative study, the authors analyse the relationships between industrial relations and workforce or wage adjustments in response to the 2007–08 crisis, using two highly comparable establishment‐level surveys conducted in Great Britain (WERS) and France (REPONSE) in 2010–12. Notwithstanding contextual differences in the countries’ productive systems and the timing and impact of the crisis, the relationships between industrial relations and adjustment strategies appear to have been similar (trade union presence not preventing adjustments). Differences in industrial relations are therefore not found to provide an explanation for the different modes of adjustment observed at the macroeconomic level.

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Industrial relations and adjustments to the crisis: A comparative micro‐statistical analysis of France and Great Britain

Amossé

Askenazy

Chevalier

et al. 2019

International Labour Review

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“…Negotiating adjustments in times of crisis gave rise to abundant literature after 2008. Mostly comparative and rarely including studies on France (with a few exceptions such as Amossé, Bryson, Forth, et al, 2016; Amossé, Bryson, & Petit, 2016; Freyssinet, 2015; Glassner et al, 2011; Lallement, 2011), this literature shows that negotiations have often led to trade‐offs between flexibility and security through company and industry agreements (Glassner et al, 2011; Ibsen & Mailand, 2010; Marginson et al, 2014; Marginson & Galetto, 2016). The first observation was the tacit consent of trade unions to place the burden of adjustment on ‘outsiders’, most often temporary workers, particularly in France and Spain (Lallement, 2011).…”

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Workforce adjustment strategies and concession bargaining in times of crisis: A qualitative approach based on French case studies

Delahaie

Pérez

2021

Industrial Relations Journal

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Although the scale of the current crisis undoubtedly implies heavy repercussions on employment and work, this paper draws on the experience of French firms that implemented various workforce adjustments during the 2008 crisis. We focus on how adjustments were negotiated and the bargaining leeway for employee representatives. On the basis of 14 case studies, we seek to determine whether the crisis has led to concession bargaining and, if so, assess the characteristics of the bargaining. Mobilizing the power resources approach, we identify three types of concession bargaining based on their reciprocal and reversible features and question how actors were able to mobilize resources (institutional, associational and structural) at the workplace level. Our analysis shows that times of crisis are conducive to concession bargaining, the counterparts of which are not always identifiable for employees. Ultimately, it raises the need to identify new resources that unions could mobilize to defend jobs in the face of the COVID‐19 crisis.

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“…However, inter‐industry heterogeneity can also be relevant, as was found by Amossé et al . () in their analysis of job‐quality differences among Britain and France from 2004 to 2011.…”

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Sustainable Development through CSR in Human Resource Management Practices: The Effects of the Economic Crisis on Job Quality

Martínez‐Garcia

Sorribes

Celma

2017

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This article focuses on sustainable development and human resource management (HRM). It analyzes the effects of the economic crisis on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the management of employees and its determinants, and also depicts a map of job quality for employees in Spain. Results show that the crisis has not changed the overall pattern or map; neither the characteristics of the firm, the employee, or the job that determine the map. Results also point to the fact that employees at the lower end of CSR in HRM practices have been the most affected by hard cost-containment measures applied by firms, such as dismissals. Around one-third of employees have low job quality in nearly all the dimensions analyzed; while two-thirds have higher job quality, but with variability among dimensions. The analysis is conducted for the years 2006-2010, hence comprising pre-crisis and amid the crisis years. Cross-section repeated samples of employees are used, from the Quality of Working Life Survey, which allow us to study the evolution of HRM and CSR.

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How Did Workplaces Respond to Recession?

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Industrial relations and adjustments to the crisis: A comparative micro‐statistical analysis of France and Great Britain

Industrial relations and adjustments to the crisis: A comparative micro‐statistical analysis of France and Great Britain

Workforce adjustment strategies and concession bargaining in times of crisis: A qualitative approach based on French case studies

Sustainable Development through CSR in Human Resource Management Practices: The Effects of the Economic Crisis on Job Quality

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