By John H. Clarke, Sharon Gewirtz, Eugene McLaughlin
New Managerialism, New Welfare? is a delicately built-in textbook that explores the continued restructuring of the nation and social welfare within the uk. It combines reviews of particular coverage components - comparable to future health, schooling, felony justice, neighborhood govt - with chapters that research cross-cutting topics and advancements. The ebook offers an intensive and significant mirrored image on New Labour's imaginative and prescient of the earlier and way forward for social welfare and public companies within the development of a `modern society'.
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Some trends, such as the casualization of employment and the lengthening of working hours, are dif®cult to implement in some environments where there are strong trade unions or long-standing agreements. De-layering, the removal of tiers of management to cut costs and shorten lines of communication, has been attempted by some governments but not as widely as in 38 NEW MANAGERIALISM, NEW WELFARE? businesses. The removal of whole layers of middle management that has happened in manufacturing and service businesses has not happened to the same extent in government organizations.
1996) Towards Welfare Pluralism, Aldershot, Dartmouth. Secretary of State for Social Security and Minister for Welfare Reform (1998) New Ambitions for Our Country: A New Contract for Welfare, Cm 3805, London, The Stationery Of®ce. Skelcher, C. (1998) The Appointed State, Buckingham, Open University Press. Stoker, G. ) (1999) The New Management of British Local Governance, Basingstoke, Macmillan. 3 3 Managerial changes and their causes Costs Legitimacy Power struggles Local conditions and institutional constraints on changes Existing alliances Culture and beliefs Technical A variety of experience References 29 29 33 36 36 38 39 42 42 43 This chapter asks the question: is there a world-wide tendency towards a uni®ed way of managing public services?
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