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Amtsethos oder Job? Zum Arbeitsbewusstsein im öffentlichen Dienst

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  • Vogel, Berthold
  • Pfeuffer, Andreas

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While the study of the sociology of work, for example in France, has a strong focus on the field of public services in transition, a similar preoccupation in the literature of German-speaking countries is only gradually getting off the ground. The article gives a brief overview of this literature and reconstructs the public sector as a working place of a "special quality", insofar as the welfare state of the postwar period created new statuses and positions, which went along with certain securities and guarantees for the new emerging educated middle classes, women and low-skilled workers. It served as a driving force for social integration as well as a normative model for the modern society based on the division of labour. Underpinned by results of a trinational research project on public administrations, postal services and hospitals in public ownership it is examined whether the challenge of this arrangement during the processes of privatisation, liberalisation and modernisation of the past two decades has transformed the specific ethos of the employees of the public services to a pure job mentality. It shows the persistence of a consciousness for the particularity of tasks in relation to the public weal, which surfaces in conflicts on recognition and appreciation.

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  • Vogel, Berthold & Pfeuffer, Andreas, 2016. "Amtsethos oder Job? Zum Arbeitsbewusstsein im öffentlichen Dienst," WSI-Mitteilungen, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 69(7), pages 513-520.
  • Handle: RePEc:nms:wsimit:10.5771/0342-300x-2016-7-513
    DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2016-7-513
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