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Plant Closings: Power, Politics, and Workers.
... While military and federal government officials involved in the closure process are not corporate elites with strictly capitalist intentions, the role they play in the eyes of the communities affected could be very similar. Especially considering the power they are seen to have, a power that Rothstein (1986:3) refers to as his first myth of the face of power, the public and institutional face: power is held "by the public decision makers and the institutions legally charged with making important public decisions." ...
... Most former advocates now admit this was a dead end (Osterman 1999;Batt 2011). For a comparative analysis of the power of myth to affect militancy see Rothstein (1986). 3 This essay builds on previous articles: McIntyre (2009a, 2009b) and McIntyre andHillard (2008, 2009). ...
This essay takes on a major pillar of the social structures of accumulation (SSA) literature: the "limited capital-labor accord." The accord is shorthand for an industrial relations structure based on job-control, politically conservative unionism, and state-regulated collective bargaining during the period of 1948-1973. Our essay shows how this stylized assumption of industrial relations history has been empirically rejected by labor and business history and industrial relations scholarship since the 1980s.
Downsizing sometimes involves the shutdown of manufacturing capacity by multiplant firms. The paper focuses on the selection of a site for shutdown by firms operating two or more sites manufacturing a similar product. Survey evidence from managers involved suggests such decisions are not always based on financial information. Open discussions with managers responsible for selecting sites for closure, suggest the key factors used in selecting a plant for closure are small size, a limited range of activities on site, site difficulties of access of expansion, labour problems, old age in capital equipment (both machinery and buildings) and a long distance from head office.
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