restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Gerry Mooney and Alex Law.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Bristol, U.K. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Policy Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xi, 300 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS NOTE (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES)
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctt1t6z1zc
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
New Labour/hard labour?.
International Standard Book Number
1861348347
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
New Labour/hard labor?
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Labour Party (Great Britain)
Labour Party (Great Britain)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Human services personnel-- Great Britain.
Industrial relations-- Great Britain.
Public welfare-- Great Britain.
Communities - Urban Groups.
Government - Europe.
Government - Non-U.S.
Human services personnel.
Industrial relations.
Law, Politics & Government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Labor & Industrial Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.
Politics and government
Public welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Human Services.
Social Sciences.
Sociology & Social History.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain, Politics and government, 1997-2007.