Synchronized national austerity eliminates the exit option that once absorbed displaced public workers.
Evidence
If a city were financially strapped in an otherwise healthy economy, young public employees would be able to find work in other locations. However, all governments more or less experience pressure to hold the line on costs at the same time, since the fiscal crisis is significantly a function of national economic and political trends. Thus no longer are there jobs waiting for young teachers or social workers in the suburbs, or California, or elsewhere, as in the past. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1265
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to labor-mobility and monopsony arguments about why workers stay in degrading jobs when no alternative employer exists. — connects to: Austerity structurally dismantled the workers’ movement and its economic alternatives — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 654; Credit clientelism removes the exit option that bargaining requires; Even empowered workers exit individually rather than collectively — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 102
Broader Connections
- Even empowered workers exit individually rather than collectively
#complicates(0.82) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 102 - Austerity structurally dismantled the workers’ movement and its economic alternatives
#expands(0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 654 - Credit clientelism removes the exit option that bargaining requires
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