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Industrial Relations in the NHS

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  • © 1992

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  1. Roger Seifert

    1. University of Keele, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Work, wages and the industrial relations tradition

    • Roger Seifert
    Pages 1-45

  3. The professions and their associations

    • Roger Seifert
    Pages 46-112

  4. The trade unions and their members

    • Roger Seifert
    Pages 113-162

  5. Employers, managers and the conduct of industrial relations

    • Roger Seifert
    Pages 163-197

  6. Whitley and the survival of collective bargaining

    • Roger Seifert
    Pages 198-255

  7. Deadlocked: arbitration, industrial action and pay review

    • Roger Seifert
    Pages 256-293

  8. Workplace collective bargaining

    • Roger Seifert
    Pages 294-359

  9. The market, collective bargaining and the survival of custom

    • Roger Seifert
    Pages 360-402

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 403-426
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About this book

This is the first book yet written on industrial relations in the NHS and it has been completed at a time of radical and rapid change. Some of the material, particularly in the final chapter, reflects first thoughts about the impact of the new system on industrial relations. The book arose from my teaching experiences with health service practitioners from several of the NHS trade unions and professional associations. Many of these activists, as well as managers, expressed frustration that there was no single source about some of the issues which concerned them. This book is the result of their anxieties. Throughout, I have assumed that the main thrust of government policy towards the NHS, at least since the early 1980s, has been to sell off important sections of the service to the private sector. There is, I believe, strong evidence for this proposition. My argument, however, is based not only on the evidence of government's will to 'privatize', but also on the behaviour of ministers, senior civil servants and senior NHS managers which adds up to a set of policies and practices which together allow the point that government runs the NHS as if it was going to sell it.

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  • University of Keele, UK

    Roger Seifert

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