The fragmenting occupation of labour inspection and the degradation of regulatory and enforcement work inside the British state

Stephen Mustchin and Miguel Martínez Lucio

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, vol. 44, issue 2, 526-546

Abstract: While union presence and joint regulation of work and employment has declined, the state maintains a key role in directly regulating employment standards in areas including health and safety, minimum wage enforcement and subcontracting. Based on an empirical study of enforcement agencies in Britain, this article argues that the nature of regulatory work and its reshaping by both exogenous and endogenous pressures ultimately influences the impact of regulation itself and how it is enforced. Major shifts in the skills, knowledge and networks critical to the nature of labour inspection work parallel developments within the workplaces they are responsible for regulating.

Keywords: Employment relations; labour inspection; regulation; regulatory enforcement; workplace change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X221078337

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