Working in a risk society
Working in a risk society
Through much of the 1980s, discussions of transformations within work and employment debated the emergence of a new, more 'flexible' era - or, at a different level of analysis, the growth of more 'flexible' working practices. Recent accounts of contemporary socio-economic change have been framed within new sets of theoretical contexts, such as Ulrich Beck's notion of 'social risk'. The central aim of this paper is to evaluate the utility of such an approach, drawing upon empirical work which has investigated changes to terms and conditions of manual employment in British local authorities as a result of the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering.
insecurity, risk, employment restructuring, local authorities, compulsory competitive tendering, Britain
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Reimer, S.
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March 1998
Reimer, S.
d6594766-1967-4439-a8bb-14e52a6e2f5f
Reimer, S.
(1998)
Working in a risk society.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33 (1), .
Abstract
Through much of the 1980s, discussions of transformations within work and employment debated the emergence of a new, more 'flexible' era - or, at a different level of analysis, the growth of more 'flexible' working practices. Recent accounts of contemporary socio-economic change have been framed within new sets of theoretical contexts, such as Ulrich Beck's notion of 'social risk'. The central aim of this paper is to evaluate the utility of such an approach, drawing upon empirical work which has investigated changes to terms and conditions of manual employment in British local authorities as a result of the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering.
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Published date: March 1998
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insecurity, risk, employment restructuring, local authorities, compulsory competitive tendering, Britain
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