Fighting Marketization
Fighting Marketization
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对抗市场化
DOI：
10.1177/0160449x06298888
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发表时间：
2007
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通讯作者：
W. Gill
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作者：
W. Gill
当公共服务工会和工人与私有化作斗争时，他们必须强调，他们的劳动是独特的，因为它产生了由具体的、不可量化的劳动组成的使用价值。使用价值生产回应了社会需求，并促进了“公共服务精神”的发展。市场机制正在不断侵蚀公共服务的劳动力和福利服务，试图将它们的价值降低到商品的价值。这里提供的案例研究证据表明，这种市场化会导致失业、随意化、激化和员工士气的丧失。工人和工会通过与其他工会、富有同情心的经理和当地社区合作，努力克服外包的最坏影响。为了防止他们的服务恶化，他们可以辩称市政劳工是与众不同的。这篇文章将这些发现和论点与美国的市政体力劳动联系起来。
As public-service unions and workers struggle against privatization, they must emphasize that their labor is distinctive because it produces use-values composed of concrete, unquantifiable labor. Use-value production responds to social needs and permits the development of a “public service ethos.” Market mechanisms are continually eroding public-service labor and welfare services in an effort to reduce their value to that of a commodity. Case study evidence presented here shows that such marketization causes job loss, casualization, intensification, and loss of worker morale. Workers and unions have fought hard to overcome the worst effects of contracting out by cooperating with other unions, with sympathetic managers, and with the local community. To keep their service from deteriorating, they can argue that municipal labor is distinctive. The article relates the findings and arguments to municipal manual labor in the United States.