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Politics and the state as employer

Title
Politics and the state as employer / Peter Fairbrother.
Author
Fairbrother, Peter.
Publication
London ; New York : Mansell, 1994.

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Description
xii, 211 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Focussing on the restructuring of the state sector in the UK, this book investigates the implications for labour relations between the state as employer and the civil service unions, arguing that in the past decade the civil service has been politicised as never before.
Subject
  • Civil service > Great Britain
  • Government employee unions > Great Britain
  • Civil service
  • Government employee unions
  • Gewerkschaft
  • Öffentlicher Dienst
  • Geschichte 1970-1994
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • A New Management Approach? Caring for 'Customers'. Qualifying Standardized Forms of Employment and Work Routines. Benefit Work -- 6. Building Unions in the Benefits Agency. Organizing Administrative Grades: The Civil and Public Services Association and the National Union of Civil and Public Servants. First Steps. Local Unionism. Branch Organization. Management Approaches. Making a Mark. Broadening the Union Base -- 7. Collecting Revenue. The Board of Inland Revenue. The Financial Management Initiative. The Inland Revenue and Next Steps. Staff. The Departmentalization of Pay. Managerial Procedures. Work and Employment -- 8. Organizing Inland Revenue Workers. Unions in the Revenue. The Inland Revenue Staff Federation. The Inland Revenue Staff Federation and Next Steps. The Inland Revenue Staff Federation in the West Midlands. The Local Organization. Managers and Unions -- 9. Towards a 'New' Managerialism. The Framework for Reorganization. The Corporate Planning Process. The Quest for Flexibility.
  • Manager and Worker Relations -- 10. Politics from Below. The Questions for Unions. Local and National Union Relations. The Conditions for Local Unionism. Local Unionism -- 11. A New State? Old Struggles? Restructuring the State. A Commercial State. A Management State. The Beginnings of Struggle. The Future.
ISBN
  • 072012137X
  • 9780720121377
LCCN
93032442
OCLC
  • ocm29025217
  • 29025217
  • SCSB-2030768
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