Whyeda Gill‐mclure
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4447263 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Whyeda Gill‐mclure |
| NOMBRES | Whyeda |
| APELLIDO | Gill‐mclure |
| FIRMA | MCLURE W G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wolverhampton |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Adaptation, evolution and survival? The political economy of Whitleyism and public service industrial relations in the U.K. 1917–present
The Whitley Reports, 1917–1918 were seen by contemporaries as conservative: they reflected pre-existing voluntaristic approaches to the labour problem rather than a radical departure. Largely neglected by the well-established private sector, for whom they were intended, Whitley Councils were taken up by the newly emerging public service unions. The interwar years demonstrated Whitleyism’s lack of clout. But, endorsed by governments during and aft…
Reconstructing resistance and renewal in public service unionism in the twenty-first century
This special issue uses the occasion of the centenary of the Whitley Commission Reports to illuminate the contemporary crisis in public service industrial relations from a historical perspective. In all six countries studied—Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the USA—public service employment is labour intensive and quantitatively significant in the overall economy. Public services have also been major targets of neoliberal reforms, star…
Who stole the town hall? The end of local government as we know it
Peter Latham’s new book, like Leach et al.’s (also out in 2017), is critical of the devolution agenda and the Localism Act 2011: he also agrees with Jones and Stewart (2012) that the Act continues
The politics of managerial reform in UK local government
The article examines the political origins and impact of recent managerial reform (the shift from the professional bureaucracy model of public administration to the new public management [NPM]) in UK local government. Two key drivers of managerial reform are identified: central–local relations and labour management. The former are historically complex due, partly, to the Victorian expediential justification of local government, and the tenuous co…
The political economy of public sector trade union militancy under Keynesianism
Public service labour's distinctiveness is insufficiently understood or recognised; and in its ad hoc growth under liberal ideologies of state intervention (those of Mill and Keynes), it has been treated both as if it were and were not public service labour. This paper teases out some of the crucial links between liberal ideologies of state intervention and the social praxis of public service unionism, outlining the latter's historical struggle a…
Degrading the labourer
Market mechanisms in the local-government sector have transformed service delivery and the management of manual municipal labour. Low pay has traditionally been tolerated in these services in exchange for job security; and the relative autonomy entailed by non-profit production methods had permitted the continuation of a public-service ethos. But in a labour-intensive sector, the move from democratically determined to market-led production within…
Fighting Marketization
As public-service unions and workers struggle against privatization, they must emphasize that their labor is distinctive because it produces use-values composed of concrete, unquantifiable labor. Use-value production responds to social needs and permits the development of a “public service ethos.” Market mechanisms are continually eroding public-service labor and welfare services in an effort to reduce their value to that of a commodity. Case stu…
The politics of managerial reform in UK local government
The article examines the political origins and impact of recent managerial reform (the shift from the professional bureaucracy model of public administration to the new public management [NPM]) in UK local government. Two key drivers of managerial reform are identified: central–local relations and labour management. The former are historically complex due, partly, to the Victorian expediential justification of local government, and the tenuous co…
The political economy of public sector trade union militancy under Keynesianism
Public service labour's distinctiveness is insufficiently understood or recognised; and in its ad hoc growth under liberal ideologies of state intervention (those of Mill and Keynes), it has been treated both as if it were and were not public service labour. This paper teases out some of the crucial links between liberal ideologies of state intervention and the social praxis of public service unionism, outlining the latter's historical struggle a…
Fighting Marketization
As public-service unions and workers struggle against privatization, they must emphasize that their labor is distinctive because it produces use-values composed of concrete, unquantifiable labor. Use-value production responds to social needs and permits the development of a “public service ethos.” Market mechanisms are continually eroding public-service labor and welfare services in an effort to reduce their value to that of a commodity. Case stu…
Degrading the labourer
Market mechanisms in the local-government sector have transformed service delivery and the management of manual municipal labour. Low pay has traditionally been tolerated in these services in exchange for job security; and the relative autonomy entailed by non-profit production methods had permitted the continuation of a public-service ethos. But in a labour-intensive sector, the move from democratically determined to market-led production within…
Who stole the town hall? The end of local government as we know it
Peter Latham’s new book, like Leach et al.’s (also out in 2017), is critical of the devolution agenda and the Localism Act 2011: he also agrees with Jones and Stewart (2012) that the Act continues
Fighting Marketization
As public-service unions and workers struggle against privatization, they must emphasize that their labor is distinctive because it produces use-values composed of concrete, unquantifiable labor. Use-value production responds to social needs and permits the development of a “public service ethos.” Market mechanisms are continually eroding public-service labor and welfare services in an effort to reduce their value to that of a commodity. Case stu…
Degrading the labourer
Market mechanisms in the local-government sector have transformed service delivery and the management of manual municipal labour. Low pay has traditionally been tolerated in these services in exchange for job security; and the relative autonomy entailed by non-profit production methods had permitted the continuation of a public-service ethos. But in a labour-intensive sector, the move from democratically determined to market-led production within…
The political economy of public sector trade union militancy under Keynesianism
Public service labour's distinctiveness is insufficiently understood or recognised; and in its ad hoc growth under liberal ideologies of state intervention (those of Mill and Keynes), it has been treated both as if it were and were not public service labour. This paper teases out some of the crucial links between liberal ideologies of state intervention and the social praxis of public service unionism, outlining the latter's historical struggle a…
The politics of managerial reform in UK local government
The article examines the political origins and impact of recent managerial reform (the shift from the professional bureaucracy model of public administration to the new public management [NPM]) in UK local government. Two key drivers of managerial reform are identified: central–local relations and labour management. The former are historically complex due, partly, to the Victorian expediential justification of local government, and the tenuous co…
Adaptation, evolution and survival? The political economy of Whitleyism and public service industrial relations in the U.K. 1917–present
The Whitley Reports, 1917–1918 were seen by contemporaries as conservative: they reflected pre-existing voluntaristic approaches to the labour problem rather than a radical departure. Largely neglected by the well-established private sector, for whom they were intended, Whitley Councils were taken up by the newly emerging public service unions. The interwar years demonstrated Whitleyism’s lack of clout. But, endorsed by governments during and aft…
Reconstructing resistance and renewal in public service unionism in the twenty-first century
This special issue uses the occasion of the centenary of the Whitley Commission Reports to illuminate the contemporary crisis in public service industrial relations from a historical perspective. In all six countries studied—Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the USA—public service employment is labour intensive and quantitatively significant in the overall economy. Public services have also been major targets of neoliberal reforms, star…
Who stole the town hall? The end of local government as we know it
Peter Latham’s new book, like Leach et al.’s (also out in 2017), is critical of the devolution agenda and the Localism Act 2011: he also agrees with Jones and Stewart (2012) that the Act continues
Labor Movements and Unions (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Public Administration (7 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Public sector (5 obras) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Public Administration (4 obras) · Public service (4 obras)