Degrading the labourer
The reform of local government manual work
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4941925 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Whyeda Gill-Mclure, Whyeda Gill‐mclure, Roger Seifert (0000-0002-4091-0784) |
| Año | 2008 |
| Volumen | 32 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 1-30 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2008-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Capital & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030981680809400102 |
| OpenAlex | W1988716999 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 6 |
| Referencias citadas | 37 |
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 ever-decreasing levels of central funding is only possible through job loss, work intensification and insecurity. Case study findings show how these pressures were played out in school cleaning and grounds maintenance in a Labour local authority
Autonomy · Business · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Economy · Ethos · Job security · Labour economics · Local government · Market economy · Political science · Public sector · Public service · Unemployment · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Public Administration
The local state and uneven development
Labor and monopoly capital
Critique de la raison dialectique
Karl Marx's Theory of History
The Impacts of Collective Bargaining on Local Government Services
Competitive Tendering In Local Government
Fighting Marketization
Implementing ‘Best Value’
Going privately
Industrial Relations in Local Government
The Royal Commission on the Civil Service
English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act
The Conduct of Local Authority Business
What about the workers? Best Value, employment and work in local public services
A Prehistory of the Best Value Regime
Value production and struggle in the classroom
New Labour, New Unions, New Left
Restructuring State Employment
Management Practices and Employee Attitudes
Spectres of Marx and Braverman in the Twilight of Postmodernist Labour Process Research
Work, Employment and Society
Bravermania and Beyond
Braverman and the Contribution of Labour Process Analysis to the Critique of Capitalist Production - Twenty-Five Years On
| Obras citantes distintas | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,43 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 5 |