Is the public sector at the centre of the class struggle?

Seifert, Roger

dc.contributor.author	Seifert, Roger
dc.date.accessioned	2018-07-03T16:27:18Z
dc.date.available	2018-07-03T16:27:18Z
dc.date.issued	2018-07-01
dc.identifier.citation	Seifert, R. (2018) 'Is the public sector at the centre of the class struggle?' Theory & Struggle, 119, pp. 107–117.
dc.identifier.issn	2057-0988
dc.identifier.doi	10.3828/ts.2018.12
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2436/621423
dc.description.abstract	Public sector workers are workers even though they are not employed by profit-making firms. As a consequence their unions are part of the working-class movement. Working for state-owned and managed services does not detract either from their class position or from the need for their unions to defend and improve their terms and conditions. In the current UK situation with politically-engineered ‘austerity’ (budget, wage, and pension cuts) and the application of tougher performance management systems in the public services (New Public Management), their struggles can be seen to be one centre of the wider class struggle.
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dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Liverpool University Press
dc.relation.url	https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/ts.2018.12
dc.subject	public sector
dc.subject	workers
dc.subject	unions
dc.subject	class struggle
dc.title	Is the public sector at the centre of the class struggle?
dc.type	Journal article
dc.identifier.journal	Theory & Struggle
dc.date.accepted	2017-12-30
rioxxterms.funder	University of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.project	UOW03072018RS
rioxxterms.version	AM
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate	2018-07-01
dc.source.volume	119
dc.source.issue	1
dc.source.beginpage	107
dc.source.endpage	117
refterms.dateFCD	2018-08-01T12:30:20Z
refterms.versionFCD	AM
refterms.dateFOA	2019-06-25T11:17:24Z
html.description.abstract	Public sector workers are workers even though they are not employed by profit-making firms. As a consequence their unions are part of the working-class movement. Working for state-owned and managed services does not detract either from their class position or from the need for their unions to defend and improve their terms and conditions. In the current UK situation with politically-engineered ‘austerity’ (budget, wage, and pension cuts) and the application of tougher performance management systems in the public services (New Public Management), their struggles can be seen to be one centre of the wider class struggle.