Healthcare Assistants: Distributional losses as a consequence of NHS modernisation?

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 209-221

  Clark, Ian ^a   Thompson, Amanda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingent control regimes; Exploitation; Health care; Labour process; NHS modernisation; Work intensification; Workplace resistance

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; HOSPITAL SECTOR; LABOR SUPPLY; MODERNIZATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84949520059     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ntwe.12053     Document Type: Article

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