Publisher's Synopsis
Public Service Trade Unionism and Radical Politics is concerned with the nature of public service white-collar trade unions. Its focus is on trade union reaction to the radical political programme of left-wing local authorities during the 1980s. - - It argues that whilst public service workers quite appropriately exercised their rights to defend and promote their collective interests that the nature of their trade unionism was such as to close down the few opportunities there were for building a new democratic mandate for collective welfare. The book goes on to suggest that public service unions need to re-evaluate their priorities and strategies with a greater focus on the human product of their labour.
