De-Professionalism and Austerity: Challenges for the Public Sector

Nigel Malin

doi:10.1017/9781447350170

De-Professionalism and Austerity

Challenges for the Public Sector

Austerity's impacts on the healthcare, social care and education professions are under the spotlight in this important book. From scarcer resources to greater stresses, and falling training budgets to rising risks, it charts how policies and cuts have compromised workers' ability to undertake their professional roles. It combines research and practice experience to assess the extent of de-professionalisation in recent years and how workers have responded. This book is a vital review of how austerity has resculpted our notions of professionalism.

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Challenges for the Public Sector

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Foreword
pp ix-xii

Note on the author
pp xiii-xiv

Part I - Policy background and concepts
pp 1-2

1 - Austerity as a UK policy context in the early twenty-first century
pp 3-12

2 - Neo-liberalism as an ideology, an elite project and its impact on austerity
pp 13-26

3 - Public services, the UK economy and the Brexit debate
pp 27-50

Part II - Theoretical frameworks and ideology: professionalism and de-professionalism
pp 51-52

4 - Perspectives used in studying professions: sociology,social philosophy
pp 53-68

5 - Perspectives used in studying professions: social policy and public administration
pp 69-86

6 - De-professionalism: an analytical framework
pp 87-100

Part III - De-professionalism in the public sector: output indicators
pp 101-102

7 - The impact of service cutbacks, job insecurity and globalisation
pp 103-120

8 - De-professionalism as defined by services deemed unconventional, under-performing or ineffectual
pp 121-142

9 - Professional training programmes: financial cuts and content critique
pp 143-156

Part IV - De-professionalism in the public sector: subjective or experiential indicators
pp 157-158

10 - A demoralisation or disparagement of the workforce?
pp 159-182

11 - Professional abuse of power: discreditation or a lowering of productivity?
pp 183-208

12 - Conclusion: professionals as entrepreneurs in an age of austerity
pp 209-228

References
pp 229-284

Index
pp 285-299

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