Kim Mather
Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services
Mather, Kim; Seifert, Roger
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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 |
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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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