Careers and industrial action in banking: reply to a comment

Gregor Gall’s response to our article on the recent interactions between employment, technology and industrial relations in banking provides an interesting additional discussion of the development of trade union activity over recent decades in this sector. However, much of his fire is directed towards targets at which we did not originally aim, as we were primarily concerned to track the manner in which organizational and technological changes, and current financial stringencies, are rapidly combining to displace the job opportunities of banks' clerical and administrative staff.