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Required reading for the Labour party
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Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy
Ian Greer and Charles Umney
Bloomsbury £12.99
POOR pay may be the immediate catalyst for the strikes gripping the NHS but it is clear that nurses and ambulance staff are in the vanguard of a broader struggle to save universal healthcare from creeping marketisation.
The introduction of market mechanisms over decades underpins the new militancy of organisations such as the Royal College of Nurses alongside other unions who are fighting not just to improve their conditions but also to ensure quality services and safety.
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