Labour internationalism and the public sector: The case of the Public Services International

Magdahl, Jørgen Eiken; Jordhus‐Lier, David

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102146

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“…Report by the Crime and Misconduct Commission (2011) in Australia, for instance, shows positive perception of public service among employees. Similar positive views were reported in other developed nations especially in terms of performance, service delivery, and reward system (Hospido & Moral‐Benito, 2016; Lægreid et al, 2013; Magdahl & Jordhus‐Lier, 2020; Suebvises, 2018), although few of these reports show that the public still believed in the continuous existence of corrupt practices in the public service and as a result, expect more attention on the issue (Crime and Misconduct Commission, 2011; Mocetti & Orlando, 2019).…”

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Public service in Nigeria: Perception of young and middle‐aged adults

Oyekola

Ajani

Asamu

et al. 2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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The purpose of this study is to assess the perception of public service in Nigeria from the standpoint of young and middle‐aged adults in Ibadan, Nigeria with a view to determining its performance and contribution to national development. Concurrent triangulation mixed methods research design was adopted in this study to collect primary data from young and middle‐aged adults in Ibadan, Nigeria. Descriptive and inferential statistics described quantitative data and principal component analysis (PCA) extracted two factors. In addition, thematic content analysis was adopted to analyze qualitative research data. Findings showed that respondents had a negative perception of public service in Nigeria both in terms of its operation and reward. Job security was perceived positively but corruption/bad behavior in the public service was most perceived negatively. Also, final year undergraduates most perceive public service negatively and public paid workers least perceived public service negatively. Knowledge of this study will benefit Nigerians who render and enjoy public services, and will be most useful for the Nigerian public service to formulate policies that will prevent self‐interested, inefficient, ineffective, and unproductive public service workforce. This study measures, for the first time, perception of Nigerian public service in terms of its operation and reward. Studies that will investigate the rationale behind young and middle‐aged adults' negative perception of and high preference for careers in Nigerian public service are recommended. Also, improvement in service delivery and in the conditions of Nigerian public service will help in correcting the negative view.

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Public service in Nigeria: Perception of young and middle‐aged adults

Oyekola

Ajani

Asamu

et al. 2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…For the most part, the GUF debate has focused on the transnational opportunity of belonging to the same MNC, such as IndustriAll and BWI, in which workers’ common interests across borders are leveraged by the GUFs. Yet in public services global unionism, this force is almost nonexistent; affiliates are highly embedded, bonded to national (or local) governments, giving weak support to PSI as a GUF (Magdahl & Jordhus‐Lier, 2020). Our research highlights that other forces able to engage affiliates with a GUF emerge at the affiliates’ organisational levels.…”

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“…First, drawing on the union identity debate, we go beyond analytically highlighting the importance of the global component of union identity to shed empirical light on its characteristics across affiliates and the macro and organisational forces shaping it. Second, the global unionism debate has focused on GUFs in manufacturing sectors, and PSI is understudied (Magdahl & Jordhus‐Lier, 2020). As we show in our multivariate analyses, PSI is an important case for the understanding of GUFs and globalism, as it has very high saliency among its affiliates, once the macrocontextual characteristics are controlled.…”

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Global union federations on affiliates’ websites: Forces shaping unions’ global organisational identity

Frangi

Zhang

2021

Brit J Industrial Rel

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Affiliates’ sense of oneness in a Global Union Federation (GUF) is pivotal for that GUF to be able to counter the forces of globalisation. We argue that GUF saliency in affiliates’ identity is the microfoundation of this sense of oneness. We examine this facet of identity by analysing the contents of the websites of 2314 affiliates of four major GUFs. Our three‐step study explores the extent to which and why GUFs’ saliency varies across affiliates. First, we compute a GUF saliency index score for each affiliate based on its website contents. Second, we examine the impact of macro‐institutional characteristics (national employment relations and socioeconomic characteristics) on the GUF saliency score. Finally, focusing on one GUF, Public Service International and drawing on 19 semi‐structured interviews in 16 countries across six world regions, we highlight appeal and relationships, and especially their joint effect, as fundamental forces to explain the variations between affiliates. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for GUF debate and policies.

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“…Engagements were also prioritised with institutions such as the World Bank, regional development banks, the IMF, and different parts of the UN system in order, for example, for them to adopt labour conventions or to lobby on policies related to public services delivery. From 2012, however, PSI extended its focus on forging campaigns and international coalitions to include issues like the right to health services and global tax justice (for a discussion about later alliances, see Magdahl & Jordhus‐Lier, 2020).…”

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“…By reframing the strategy from workers' rights to human rights, PSI managed to shift its message to a higher level of abstraction, which formed the backbone of a joint global social movement unionism. These network connections are based on the specific political labour relations of public service workers (Magdahl & Jordhus-Lier, 2020). PSI's material employment interests, tied to the state, offered distinct opportunities for articulating common political interests with users.…”

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Theorising approaches to social movement spatialities: Local and global contestations of neoliberal water services

Magdahl

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper examines different ways of studying – and thereby understanding – social movement spatialities. For more than a decade, literature on the geographies of social movements has explored the multiple spatialities of mobilisation, using concepts like scale, network, place, and territory. Drawing on existing contributions, the study provides a critical engagement that differentiates between several forms of research agendas involving contrasting epistemologies. This engagement contributes to opening up a conceptualisation of multiple analytical approaches by (1) analysing wider processes and political goals spanning different movements, characterised as ‘cross‐cutting spatialities’; (2) studying the more specific and diverse spatiotemporal realities within particular movement cases, which describe their ‘complex‐situated spatialities’; and (3) considering how inherent tensions arise between the different political practices of specific movements, displaying ‘contradictory spatialities’. The reading of these approaches is framed within a relational perspective that employs them in an empirical study of local and global struggles against neoliberalised urban water services. The paper explores the spatial practices of an urban place‐based movement struggle in Johannesburg and a global labour union federation for public service workers – representing two vantage points in the fight for water justice and the human right to essential services. The study demonstrates how the analytical approaches inform one another through complementary but also contrasting perspectives on movement politics.

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Labour internationalism and the public sector: The case of the Public Services International

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Public service in Nigeria: Perception of young and middle‐aged adults

Public service in Nigeria: Perception of young and middle‐aged adults

Global union federations on affiliates’ websites: Forces shaping unions’ global organisational identity

Theorising approaches to social movement spatialities: Local and global contestations of neoliberal water services

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