From Hayek to New Labour: The Changing Ideology of Public Sector Provision

2007 ◽  
pp. 11-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
New Labour

Privatising provision and attacking poverty? The direction of UK Pension Policy under new Labour

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOM CLARK ◽  
CARL EMMERSON
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Pension Policy ◽  
Private Provision ◽  
Pension Reforms ◽  
The Uk

This paper analyses the thrust of the UK Government's pension reforms in the context of the system they inherited. The reforms represent continuity with what went before in seeking to continue the privatisation of pension provision, but herald a new emphasis on pensioner poverty reduction. There is a clear broad strategy even though not all of the reforms fit obviously within it – a generous means-tested system, extensive private provision and a diminished contributory pension. In the long term, this strategy has advantages in terms of containing public sector liabilities, but involves further downgrading the contributory principle. It will also affect the incentive to save for many individuals. Individuals currently on means-tested benefits will be able to keep more of their savings as a result of the reform. But those currently outside the means-tested benefit regime who expect to be brought into it as a result of the reforms will face a diminished incentive to save.

scholarly journals New Labour and the Public Sector in Britain

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 535-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bevir ◽  
David O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
New Labour ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals “A new labour era?”: Canadian National Railways and the Railway Worker, 1919-1929

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-195
Author(s):  
Allen Seager
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
North American ◽  
New Labour ◽  
The State ◽  
American Industry ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Railway Workers ◽  
Conventional Picture

Abstract It is conventional to assume that the idea of a 'new era of collaboration among organized labour, capital, and the slate in wartime Canada died still-born with the events at Winnipeg in 1919 and the Big Business assault on trade unionism during the 1920s. This paper suggests that the conventional picture has been overdrawn. Railway workers, and those in the public sector in particular, remained highly unionized, while their organizations became deeply enmeshed in structures of conciliation, arbitration, and 'co-operation' during the period 1919-1929. Under the leadership of President Henrx Thornton, the state-owned Canadian National Railways, the largest employer in Canada at that time, developed a unique strategy of labour-management collaboration seen in some quarters as the harbinger of a 'new labour era' for North American industry as a whole.

Enterprise, Management and Politics

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Grey
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
New Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Initiatives

This paper explores how enterprise and management are related in contemporary political discourse. Enterprise is seen as a guiding thread linking the New Right to New Labour, because it provides an economic and moral rationale that can be mobilized flexibly to support a range of policy initiatives and ideological positions. Management has also been increasingly valued as a strategy for presenting politics as no more than a technical exercise. However, whilst enterprise and management are favoured political tropes, the promotion of both leads to a paradox in which enterprise is the solution to the problems of management and management is a solution to the problems of enterprise. This paradox helps to explain ongoing problems in the reform of the public sector.

Managerialism Reformed? New Labour and Public Sector Management

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Cutler ◽  
Barbara Waine
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Public Sector Management

Public Sector Workplace Expansion and Long Term Sick Leave

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Westerlund ◽  
J. Ferrie ◽  
J. Hagberg ◽  
K. Jeding ◽  
G. Oxenstierna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Sick Leave
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