Restructuring for shareholder value and its implications for labour

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Disconnected Capitalism: Or Why Employers Can't Keep Their Side of the Bargain (2003, background): “On the other, it is focused on taking out labour, as the labour process remains a focal point in restructuring objectives, given that labour in many sectors remains both the largest and most controllable cost (Froud et al., 2001: 13).”
Shareholder value and Financialization: consultancy promises, management moves (2000, methodology): “Between 1976 and 1995, UK ICCs spent £244 billion pounds on mergers and acquisitions in 1996 prices (Froud et al. 1999).”
From shareholder value to present-day capitalism (2000, background): “In a second paper on restructuring for shareholder value, Froud et al. (1999) 2 offer a more detailed analysis of individual rm strategies which brings out the importance of growth trajectories: if all rms cannot raise their rate of return, the subset of successful rms will include those who…”
Financialization and the workplace: extending and applying the disconnected capitalism thesis (2013, background): “Though the emphasis may differ in some respects across the authors, this is consistent with arguments and evidence from most post-Keynesian, regulation and Marxist commentators on financialization or finance-dominated capitalism (Appelbaum et al., forthcoming; Bellamy Foster and Magdoff, 2009; Froud”