Democratizing The State: Challenges From Public Sector Unions

Warskett, Rosemary

doi:10.1080/19187033.1993.11675399

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“…Maintaining public support in labour disputes is challenging for service sector workers, however, because strikes typically negatively affect service users (Lopez ). Fostering animosity for public sector unions is even easier in a neoliberal climate since declining employment conditions in the private sector can be used to mobilize public resentment of the job security, wages and benefits of public sector workers (Warskett ).…”

Section: Neoliberalizing Public Sector Workmentioning

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Negotiating Neoliberal Empowerment: Aboriginal People, Educational Restructuring, and Academic Labour in the North of British Columbia, Canada

Mills

McCreary

2013

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Aboriginal peoples in Canada are gaining influence in post-secondary education through Aboriginal-directed programs and policies in non-Aboriginal institutions. However, these gains have occurred alongside, and in some cases through, neoliberal reforms to higher education. This article explores the political consequences of the neoliberal institutionalization of First Nations empowerment for public sector unions and workers. We examine a case where the indigenization of a community college in British Columbia was embedded in neoliberal reforms that ran counter to the interests of academic instructors. Although many union members supported indigenization, many also possessed a deep ambivalence about the change. Neoliberal indigenization increased work intensity, decreased worker autonomy and promoted an educational philosophy that prioritized labour market needs over liberal arts. This example demonstrates how the integration of Aboriginal aspirations into neoliberal processes of reform works to rationalize public sector restructuring, constricting labour agency and the possibilities for alliances between labour and Aboriginal peoples.

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Section: Neoliberalizing Public Sector Workmentioning

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Negotiating Neoliberal Empowerment: Aboriginal People, Educational Restructuring, and Academic Labour in the North of British Columbia, Canada

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2013

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Soft Cops or Social Justice Activists: Social Work’s Relationship to the state in the context of BLM and Neoliberalism

Baines

2021

The British Journal of Social Work

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In the current dual context of Black Lives Matter/defund the police and calls for accountability to those whom social work has harmed as part of the state machinery, this article returns to the debate on state theory. The article explores three state-linked forms of care, coercion and control: stealth coercion/control (in aged-care); population-linked coercion/control, and police and carceral-linked coercion/control. The article analyses what is missing in state theory in a neoliberal world and argues that social work needs models of practice and theory that are themselves a form of resistance and relative autonomy from the state in that they challenge the oppressive state machinery while making demands on the state for equity and fairness. This model permits social work to be humble in the face of lived experience and grounded in the priorities of the community, rather than uncritically legitimising state-linked oppression and securing the ground for profit and accumulation. The article concludes that while this social justice-engaged model will be essential for those moving into the new practice contexts resulting from defunding the police, it is also a model that will serve to strengthen the relevance and integrity of all social work practice.

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Democratizing The State: Challenges From Public Sector Unions

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Negotiating Neoliberal Empowerment: Aboriginal People, Educational Restructuring, and Academic Labour in the North of British Columbia, Canada

Negotiating Neoliberal Empowerment: Aboriginal People, Educational Restructuring, and Academic Labour in the North of British Columbia, Canada

Soft Cops or Social Justice Activists: Social Work’s Relationship to the state in the context of BLM and Neoliberalism

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