The degradation of labour inspection in the UK
2016
14
27-29
deregulation ; labour inspection ; labour inspection role ; trade union document
Labour administration and labour inspection
English
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"Regulation to mitigate the worst excesses of capitalist production first emerged in Great Britain in the early 1800s. Always a site of struggle, this regulatory regime has in recent years come under sustained political attack, particularly in the economic context of austerity. The result is a transformation – some might even say the end – of a system of social protection for workers."
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