Housing Professionalism in the United Kingdom
The Final Curtain or a New Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12633880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Furbey (Sheffield Hallam University, corresponding author), Barbara Reid (London South Bank University), Ian Cole (Sheffield Hallam University) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-49 |
| Publication date | 2001-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Housing Theory and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/140360901750424752 |
| OpenAlex | W4242830540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The unusually large, predominantly municipal, housing sector in the UK has provided the context for a large occupational grouping of "housing managers" that has claimed professional status.However, within the post-1945 British welfare state this professional project enjoyed limited success and social housing remained a fragile professional domain.This article explores the consequences for housing professionalism of the recent displacement of the bureau-professional "organisational settlement" by that characterising an emerging "managerial state".Managerialism constitutes a clear challenge to established forms of "professionalism", especially a weak profession such as housing management.However, professionalism is temporally and culturally plastic.Hence, the demands of managerialism, within the specific context of New Labour's quest for "community" cohesion, may be providing opportunities for a new urban network professionalism founded on claims to both generic and specific skills and also a knowledge base combining abstraction with local concreteness.The prominence in these networks of erstwhile "housing" practitioners may become the basis for a new, quite different, professional project.This argument is developed through both conceptual exploration and reference to empirical research.The latter involves reference to recent work by the authors on, first, the perception of housing employers of the changing nature and demands of "housing" work and its consequences for professionalism and, secondly, the professional project implications of the increasing prominence of neighbourhood management
Business · Civil engineering · Curtain wall · Iron Curtain · Political science · Politics · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration
The third way
The Rise of Professionalism
The politics of the modernisation of the UK welfare state
Restructuring the local welfare state
The Foundations of the Welfare State
Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State?
Interorganisational networks and the delivery of local housing services
The Changing Management of Social Housing
The social construction of housing management
Engineers of the Human Machine
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |