Abstract
![CDATA[This chapters analyses the work organisation found in daycare centres in Australia and examines reasons why industry stakeholders are able to extract more effort from children's services practitioners. The additional demands placed on workers would be expected to generate considerable resistence from staff. However, as the examples of accreditation and the end of operational subsidies to non-profit (long) daycare centres illustrate, practitioners accept these burdens in their stride. This, it is argued, is due to two factors: the lack of workplace 'struggle' over interests, motivation and control and the separation of professional and industrial issues in the minds of staff. In that context it becomes difficult to discern which aspects of the work are 'exploitation' of staff by management and other industry stakeholders from the aspects of the work which practitioners themselves consider to be a demonstration of 'professionalism'.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Moving Beyond Managerialism in Human Services, |
Editors | Linda Briskman, Michael Muetzelfeldt |
Place of Publication | Melbourne, Vic |
Publisher | RMIT Pub. |
Pages | 1 - 14 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Print) | 0864592981 |
Publication status | Published - 2003 |