| The Blue-Coated Worker: A Sociological Study of Police Unionism Contributor(s): Reiner, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521294827 ISBN-13: 9780521294829 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1978 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 331.881 |
| LCCN: 77085695 |
| Series: Techniques of Measurement in Medicine |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 308 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This 1978 book addresses the way in which police unions had become increasingly militant and formed a significant political force, demanding better pay and conditions and a say in social and penal policy. In this study, Robert Reiner considers the development of British police unionization, and the views of the police themselves towards unionism. Dr Reiner is able to relate these two issues to one another particularly insightfully as a result of his interviews with a sample of policemen in a large city force, which illustrate the policeman's world-view. The central contention of the book is that the police occupy a contradictory position in class structure. Economically they are employees who form unions to advance their interests like other workers, but their political role of preserving the social order imposes special inhibitions on the character of their unionism, and can alienate them from other trade unionists. |
