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dc.contributor.authorGill-McLure, Whyeda
dc.contributor.authorThörnqvist, Christer
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-21T14:18:16Z
dc.date.available2017-11-21T14:18:16Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-26
dc.identifier.citationGill-McLure, W., Thörnqvist, C. (2017) 'Reconstructing resistance and renewal in public service unionism in the twenty-first century: lessons from a century of war and peace', Labor History, 59 (1), pp. 3-14.en
dc.identifier.issn0023-656X
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0023656X.2017.1375572
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/620877
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor and Francis in Labor History on 26/10/2017, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0023656X.2017.1375572 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.en
dc.description.abstractThis special issue uses the occasion of the centenary of the Whitley Commission Reports to illuminate the contemporary crisis in public service industrial relations from a historical perspective. In all six countries studied—Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the USA—public service employment is labour intensive and quantitatively significant in the overall economy. Public services have also been major targets of neoliberal reforms, starting in the UK and the USA at the turn of the 1980s and in the other countries about a decade later. In addition, the relatively high union density and the political dimension of public services and public union strategies have been major targets of new public management and more latterly austerity. However, the regressive period has had a differential impact in different countries. In the liberal market economies of the UK and the USA, the neoliberal turn has destabilised traditional patterns of public sector industrial relations to greatest effect. While in the more coordinated market economies, traditional arrangements and values have been more resistant to austerity and neoliberal reforms. We attempt to shed light on these differential impacts through a critical analysis of the historical evolution of public sector industrial relations in each country.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0023656X.2017.1375572
dc.subjectpublic sector industrial relationsen
dc.subjectWhitleyismen
dc.subjectpublic service union specificityen
dc.subjectbargaining models and strategiesen
dc.subjectindustrial democracyen
dc.subjectnew public managementen
dc.subjectausterityen
dc.subjectdouble movementen
dc.titleReconstructing resistance and renewal in public service unionism in the twenty-first century: lessons from a century of war and peaceen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.journalLabor Historyen
dc.contributor.institutionManagement Research Centre, Wolverhampton Business School, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Business, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden
dc.date.accepted2017-08-14
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhamptonen
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUoW211117WGM
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rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-04-25
dc.source.volume59
dc.source.issue1
dc.source.beginpage3
dc.source.endpage14
refterms.dateFCD2018-10-18T15:47:00Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
html.description.abstractThis special issue uses the occasion of the centenary of the Whitley Commission Reports to illuminate the contemporary crisis in public service industrial relations from a historical perspective. In all six countries studied—Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the USA—public service employment is labour intensive and quantitatively significant in the overall economy. Public services have also been major targets of neoliberal reforms, starting in the UK and the USA at the turn of the 1980s and in the other countries about a decade later. In addition, the relatively high union density and the political dimension of public services and public union strategies have been major targets of new public management and more latterly austerity. However, the regressive period has had a differential impact in different countries. In the liberal market economies of the UK and the USA, the neoliberal turn has destabilised traditional patterns of public sector industrial relations to greatest effect. While in the more coordinated market economies, traditional arrangements and values have been more resistant to austerity and neoliberal reforms. We attempt to shed light on these differential impacts through a critical analysis of the historical evolution of public sector industrial relations in each country.en


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