Neo-Liberalism at Work: A Case Study of the Reform of the Emergency Services in the UK

Seifert, Roger; Mather, Kim

Abstract

This paper examines changes in labor management of workers in UK emergency services under a regime of budget cuts and neoliberal state strategies. It takes an extreme case study, the emergency services, as an example of the limits of privatization and of the need, nonetheless, to re-assert management control over the labor process as part of the long-term strategy to solve the labor problem in public services.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 8, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Mar 8, 2013
• Publication Date: 2013-12
• Deposit Date: Jan 31, 2024
• Journal: Review of Radical Political Economics
• Print ISSN: 0486-6134
• Electronic ISSN: 1552-8502
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 456-462
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613412475185
• Keywords: Economics and Econometrics; Philosophy
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0486613412475185