Resisting Reform: Public Sector Workers and the British State
This paper seeks to illuminate the relations between workers and the capitalist state inthe UK in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It does so by discussing the particularrelationship between the Labor governments (1997-2008) and organised labor in the formof the trade unions. The assumption being that the government itself acted in the interests ofBritish capital writ large and therefore class relations are partly explained by the applicationof state power in certain arenas of civil society. In particular the ground to be covered isreform of the public services as this allows for a direct account of the governmentsmodernising agenda and the ways in which different sections of the working-class haveresisted the powerful policy direction of market reforms.
Roger Seifert
Keele University,Keele,Staffordshire,England ST5 5BG
国际会议
日本岛根
英文
98-106
2007-10-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）