Restructuring and the production of occupational stressors in a corporatised ambulance service

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ID3643658
AuthorsKerry Mahony (Western Sydney University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume14
Issue1
Pages84-96
Publication date2005-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Sociology Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5172/hesr.14.1.84
OpenAlexW2147166420
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

The work of ambulance personnel is considered to be a ‘high stress’ occupation by lay and scientific communities alike. Findings from the study at hand support these perceptions but for reasons that are not given primacy in the literature. Restructuring of a UK ambulance service informed by neoliberal ideology is producing new and additional stressors for members and exacerbating the unavoidable stressors of the occupation. Less worker autonomy, indeterminate hours, work intensification and the infinite expansion of shift times are creating stressors that the officers can no longer accommodate. Discourses on the aetiology of occupational stress are played out in the analysis and structural theories were found to be the most apposite

Autonomy · Business · Economics · Ideology · Labour economics · Occupational stress · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Psychiatry · Public relations · Publishing · Relocation · Restructuring · Service worker · Sociology · Stressor · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology · Marketing

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