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Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services

Mather, Kim; Seifert, Roger

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Kim Mather

Roger Seifert



Abstract

This article examines the impact on staff of state-imposed public sector reforms alongside austerity cuts since 2010 in the emergency services of England. We discuss the contextual imperatives for change in the police, fire and ambulance services while exploring their unique labour management and industrial relations’ structures and systems. As elsewhere, the burden of cuts and reforms has fallen on the workforce managed through skill mix changes. Such site-level management responses to austerity are being implemented despite staff concerns, increased dangers to the public, and their non-sustainable nature.

Acceptance Date Dec 16, 2015
Publication Date Oct 17, 2016
Journal Capital and Class
Print ISSN 0309-8168
Publisher SAGE Publications
Pages 3-22
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816816667423
Keywords austerity; emergency services; labour process; public sector; resistance; skill mix
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0309816816667423

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