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New Labour/hard labour? : Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry / / edited by Gerry Mooney and Alex Law



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Titolo: New Labour/hard labour? : Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry / / edited by Gerry Mooney and Alex Law Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bristol, U.K. : , : Policy Press, , 2007
©2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
Disciplina: 306.36
361.60941
Soggetto topico: Public welfare
Politics and government
Industrial relations
Human services personnel
POLITICAL SCIENCE - Labor & Industrial Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Human Services
POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
Public welfare - Great Britain
Industrial relations - Great Britain
Human services personnel - Great Britain
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain
Great Britain Politics and government 1997-2007
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: LawAlex  
MooneyGerry <1960->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Liverpool social workers on strikeConclusions: resources of hope for a re-engaged social work; 10. Working 'for' welfare in the grip of the 'iron' Chancellor: modernisation and resistance in the Department for Work and Pensions; Introduction; 'Modernisation' and 'reform': the vision of a 'true opportunity society'; 'Prudence for a purpose': review, rationalisation, reform; Transforming welfare: transforming welfare work; Resistance and struggle: striking 'for' welfare?; Conclusions; 11. Working in the non-profit welfare sector: contract culture, partnership, Compacts and the 'shadow state'
Managerialism in higher educationRestructuring the academic labour process; Market competition for academic labour power; Academic trade unionism and resistance; Conclusions; 8. The paradox of 'professionalisation' and 'degradation' in welfare work: the case of nursery nurses; Introduction; Labouring for the 'social investment state'; Uncovering the nursery nursing labour process; Resisting New Labour: the 2004 Scottish nursery nurses strike; Legacies of the strike; Conclusions; 9. Social work today: a profession worth fighting for?; Introduction; Deskilling of social work
IntroductionThe NHS and the nursing labour process in context; Direct and indirect forms of control over the nursing labour process; The labour process, moral management and professional self-regulation; Limits of control; Conclusions; 6. 'I didn't come into teaching for this!': the impact of the market on teacher professionalism; Introduction; 'Market, Market, Market'; Academy and trust schools; Reducing inequality: size matters; Conclusions; 7. Ambiguities and resistance:academic labour and the commodification of higher education; Higher education under New Labour
The 'Third Way' and the employment relationship'Modernising government': work intensification the New Labour way; Delivering public services: 'best value' in police call handling; Conclusions; 4. Acts of distrust? Suppor tworkers' experiences in PFI hospital schemes; Introduction; Contracting out and PFI under New Labour; Changes to pay and conditions; Alienation, belonging and the quality of services; Class consciousness and individual forms of resistance; Collective forms of resistance; Conclusions; 5. Control and resistance at the ward-face: contesting the nursing labour process
Cover; New Labour/Hard Labour?; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of contributors; 1. New Labour, 'modernisation' and welfare worker resistance; Introduction; New Labour and public sector 'modernisation'; Welfare workers: resisting New Labour; The organisation of the book; 2. Strenuous welfarism:restructuring the welfare labour process; Introduction; Models of X-inefficiency; A neo-Taylorist welfare labour process?; Neoliberalism and strenuous welfarism; Conclusions; 3. A 'Third Way'? Industrial relations under New Labour; Introduction
Sommario/riassunto: This book provides the first critically informed discussion of work and workers in the UK welfare sector under New Labour. It examines the changing nature of work and explores the context of industrial relations across the welfare industry.
Titolo autorizzato: New Labour  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-74284-8
9786611742843
1-84742-277-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451376303321
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