- Hardcover: 468 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; illustrated edition edition (4 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199240752
- ISBN-13: 978-0199240753
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Throughout the 1980s Mrs Thatcher dominated political life in the UK and Thatcherism became the shorthand for a series of political initiatives all over the world. Most accounts of these years have concentrated on the economics of free markets and privatization. This book takes a different stance through a detailed analysis of the responses of NALGO (The National and Local Government Officers Association) members, activists, leaders, and officials to the government's public sector reform and restructuring programme. Employees in health, local government, and education faced cuts in funding, compulsory competitive tendering, internal markets, and new management practices associated with HRM and TQM. Others in the gas, water, electricity, and transport industries faced wholesale privatization. This unique account of the period written from the evidence and perspective of those involved will be an important source for researchers, teachers, and practitioners in politics, industrial relations, public administration, and management concerned with the events and lessons of the 1980s.
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Roger Seifert read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University before taking an M.Sc. in Economics and later a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics. He worked for Incomes Data Service before joining Keele University where he is now Professor of Industrial Relations.
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THIS volume of the history of the National and Local Government Officers' Association (NALGO) follows on from the works by Alec Spoor and George Newman, who covered the periods 1905-65 and 1965-80 respectively. Read the first page
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THIS volume of the history of the National and Local Government Officers' Association (NALGO) follows on from the works by Alec Spoor and George Newman, who covered the periods 1905-65 and 1965-80 respectively. Read the first page
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This is the final part of the history of NALGO and marks the final move from a professional association for lower middle class local government officers that was more of a club than a union, to a fighthing union at the vanguard of the struggle to protect the rights of ordinary working people. NALGO was one of the leading trade unions in opposing Thatcher as her Government's policies were beginning to devast the public sector. Tories would say that they were bringing private sector expertise to public services but the reality was they were dragging down public sector wages in the traditionally (lower paid) working class jobs and ending access to half decent pension schemes. It seems amazing that the targeting of the poor that NALGO opposed with imaginative PR campaigns backED by industrial action is happening again under the current Government. That perhaps demonstrates the importance of books such as this as it provides important lessons from history, it is just a shame more people are not prepared to read this exceptional account. It has a more focused and interesting story to tell than the earlier volumes in the history of NALGO and it benefits accordingly. It is more accessible to the general reader interested in social and political history. Well written and expertly researched. If only the lessons it teaches us had been learnt the ordinary people in the UK would be more secure and better off albeit at the expense of the wealthy elite!
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