From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education

Gavin, M; Fitzgerald, S; McGrath-Champ, S

From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education

Gavin, M

Fitzgerald, S McGrath-Champ, S

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Citation:: The Economic and Labour Relations Review, pp. 103530462210772-103530462210772

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dc.contributor.author	Gavin, M https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6796-5198
dc.contributor.author	Fitzgerald, S
dc.contributor.author	McGrath-Champ, S
dc.date.accessioned	2022-02-13T00:04:51Z
dc.date.available	2022-02-13T00:04:51Z
dc.identifier.citation	The Economic and Labour Relations Review, pp. 103530462210772-103530462210772
dc.identifier.issn	1035-3046
dc.identifier.issn	1838-2673
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/154447
dc.description.abstract	<jats:p> Major reforms in education, globally, have focused on increased accountability and devolution of responsibility to the local school level to improve the efficiency and quality of education. While emerging research is considering implications of these changed governance arrangements at both a school and system level, little attention has been afforded to teacher union responses to devolutionary reform, despite teaching being a highly union-organised profession and the endurance of decentralising-style reforms in education for over 40 years. Drawing upon a power resources approach, this article examines union responses in cases of devolutionary reform in a populous Australian state. Through analysing evolving policy discourse, from anti-bureaucratic, managerialising rhetoric to a ‘post-bureaucratic, empowerment’ agenda, this article contributes to understandings of union power for resisting decentralising, neoliberal policy agendas by exposing the limits of public sector unions mobilising traditional power resources and arguing for strengthening of discursive and symbolic power. </jats:p><jats:p> JEL Code: J5 </jats:p>
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartof	The Economic and Labour Relations Review
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/10353046221077276
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dc.rights	Authors: Mihajla Gavin Scott Fitzgerald Susan McGrath-Champ Article Title: From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education Journal Title: The Economic and Labour Relations Review Date: 10 Feb 2022 Copyright © 2022 Sage Publications Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. Online version available on the SAGE Journals website https://doi.org/10.1177/10353046221077276
dc.subject	1402 Applied Economics, 1503 Business and Management, 1605 Policy and Administration
dc.title	From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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Abstract:

Major reforms in education, globally, have focused on increased accountability and devolution of responsibility to the local school level to improve the efficiency and quality of education. While emerging research is considering implications of these changed governance arrangements at both a school and system level, little attention has been afforded to teacher union responses to devolutionary reform, despite teaching being a highly union-organised profession and the endurance of decentralising-style reforms in education for over 40 years. Drawing upon a power resources approach, this article examines union responses in cases of devolutionary reform in a populous Australian state. Through analysing evolving policy discourse, from anti-bureaucratic, managerialising rhetoric to a ‘post-bureaucratic, empowerment’ agenda, this article contributes to understandings of union power for resisting decentralising, neoliberal policy agendas by exposing the limits of public sector unions mobilising traditional power resources and arguing for strengthening of discursive and symbolic power. JEL Code: J5

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