Public Service Trade Unionism and Radical PoliticsThis text is concerned with the nature of public-service white-collar trade unions, particularly those within local government. It argues that the human product of the labour of public-service workers gives the production process a heightened significance, uneasy with capitalist labour relations. |
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Whitecollar workers and whitecollar unions | 1 |
The development of a trade union consciousness | 26 |
Social work radicalism | 49 |
Copyright | |
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