New Labour/hard labour?: Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industr

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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.

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There are an increasing number of studies devoted to an examination of New Labour's social policies. However, thus far there has been little in the way of substantive discussion of opposition to and conflict around key elements of New Labour's agenda for the welfare state and public sector, from those who are involved in the frontline implementation and delivery of welfare policies. Since the mid to late 1990s, there have been continual and recurring episodes of industrial action of various kinds involving social workers, teachers, lecturers, nurses, hospital ancillary staff, nursery nurses, home helps and local authority librarians among others. Welfare delivery has become a central point of industrial relations disputes in the UK today. 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. While the main focus is on the workforce in state welfare, this is set within the context of recent and current shifts in the mixed economy of welfare between state, private and third sector organisations.

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A critically informed discussion of work and workers in the UK welfare sector under New Labour.

Author Biography

Gerry Mooney is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Staff Tutor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. With Gill Scott he is co-editor of Exploring Social Policy in the 'New' Scotland, Policy Press 2005. He has also written widely on issues of class, the sociology of the city and social policy in the context of devolution.Alex Law is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee. He has published in the areas of national identity, workplace restructuring, class, urban sociology, mass communications, and social theory.

Table of Contents

New Labour, 'modernisation' and welfare worker resistance ~ Gerry Mooney and Alex Law; Strenuous welfarism: restructuring the welfare labour process ~ Alex Law and Gerry Mooney; A 'Third Way'? Industrial relations under New Labour ~ Peter Bain and Phil Taylor; Acts of distrust? The experiences of support workers in PFI hospital schemes ~ Sally Ruane; Control and resistance at the ward-face: contesting the nursing labour process ~ Peter Kennedy and Carole Kennedy; 'I didn't come into teaching for this!' The impact of the market on teacher professionalism ~ Henry Maitles; Ambiguities and resistance: academic labour and the commodification of higher education ~ Alex Law and Hazel Work; The paradox of professionalisation and degradation in welfare work: the case of nursery nurses ~ Gerry Mooney and Tricia McCafferty; Social work today: a profession worth fighting for? ~ Michael Lavalette; Working 'for' welfare in the grip of the 'Iron' Chancellor: modernisation and resistance in the Department for Work and Pensions ~ Tricia McCafferty and Gerry Mooney; Working in the non-profit sector: contract culture, partnership, compacts and the 'shadow state' ~ Lynne Poole; Beyond New Labour: work and resistance in the new welfare state ~ Alex Law and Gerry Mooney.

Review

"This timely collection illuminates a very important aspect of the New Labour regime - its tough and often hostile approach to workers within the welfare state. This has received scant attention from social scientists, but this book provides an expert and critical survey across a wide range of the salient issues with an appropriate emphasis on workers' resistance." Norman Ginsburg, London Metropolitan University

Long Description

There are an increasing number of studies devoted to an examination of New Labour's social policies. However, thus far there has been little in the way of substantive discussion of opposition to and conflict around key elements of New Labour's agenda for the welfare state and public sector, from those who are involved in the frontline implementation and delivery of welfare policies. Since the mid to late 1990s, there have been continual and recurring episodes of industrial action of various kinds involving social workers, teachers, lecturers, nurses, hospital ancillary staff, nursery nurses, home helps and local authority librarians among others. Welfare delivery has become a central point of industrial relations disputes in the UK today. 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. While the main focus is on the workforce in state welfare, this is set within the context of recent and current shifts in the mixed economy of welfare between state, private and third sector organisations.

Review Quote

What happened to those workers in the public sector when New Labour came into office? This book tells us, systematically, on the basis of sound empirical research and across the public sector as a whole. Essential reading, not just for academics, but for trade unionists and anyone interested in both the reality described and in doing something about it. David Byrne, University of Durham

Details ISBN1861348339 Short Title NEW LABOUR/HARD LABOUR Publisher Policy Press Language English ISBN-10 1861348339 ISBN-13 9781861348333 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2007 Imprint Policy Press Place of Publication Bristol Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Gerry Mooney Author Alex Law Pages 312 Subtitle Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry DOI 10.1604/9781861348333 UK Release Date 2007-10-10 NZ Release Date 2007-10-10 Publication Date 2007-10-10 DEWEY 306.36 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2007-10-09 Alternative 9781861348340 Illustrations Not illustrated We've got this

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