TITLE

Worker Responses to Plant Closings

AUTHOR(S)

Targ, Harry R.; Perrucci, Robert; Perrucci, Carolyn; Targ, Dena

PUB. DATE

August 1988

SOURCE

Labor Law Journal;Aug88, Vol. 39 Issue 8, p562

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article assesses workers' cognitive responses, or beliefs, that may have resulted from job loss due to different kinds of plant or store closings in the United States. Thirty-two million jobs were lost in the United States in the 1970s due to plant, store, and office shutdowns and runaway shops. Over eleven million jobs were lost due to plant closings, relocations, and production cutbacks from 1979 to 1984. The cognitive responses are a series of measures relating to confidence in political and other major American institutions, explanations for high unemployment and attitudes toward the role government should take to mute the effects of unemployment. These cognitive responses will be compared among unemployed workers with a control group of employed workers, workers from different closing settings in which the extent of worker-manager conflict ranges from low to high, workers from factory and retail store closings and workers in closing settings with varying degrees of attachment to their unions.

ACCESSION #

5870498

Tags: UNEMPLOYMENT;  PLANT shutdowns;  EMPLOYEES;  INDUSTRIAL productivity;  DEINDUSTRIALIZATION;  DOWNSIZING of organizations

 

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