Privatization of Public Services (eBook, ePUB)

Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe
Redaktion: Hermann, Christoph; Flecker, Jörg

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book illustrates the ways in which liberalization has contributed to increasing private and foreign ownership of public services, the decentralization of labor relations has amplified pressure on wages, and decreasing employment numbers and increasing workloads have improved productivity partly at the cost of service quality. Examining diverse public-service sectors including network industries, public transportation, and hospitals, and using international case studies, Privatization of Public Services covers a wide range of aspects of service provision, with particular emphasis on companies and workers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136316180
• Artikelnr.: 38249055

Autorenporträt

Christoph Hermann is a senior researcher at FORBA, the Working Life Research Centre in Vienna and a lecturer at the Department of Government, University of Vienna. Jörg Flecker is the scientific director of FORBA, the Working Life Research Centre in Vienna and an external professor of the University of Vienna (Faculty of Economics and Business Studies).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Christoph Hermann and Jörg Flecker 2. The Process of
Liberalisation, Privatisation and Marketisation Christoph Hermann and Koen
Verhoest 3. Concentration and Disintegration: Company Responses in the
Electricity Sector and Consequences for Employment Christoph Hermann and
Richard Pond 4. Between Former Monopolists and New Competitors:
Fragmentation and Deterioration of Employment Conditions in Postal Services
Torsten Brandt and Christoph Hermann 5. Outsourcing, Competitive Tendering
and Changing Working Conditions in Local Public Transport Jörg Flecker and
Christer Thörnqvist 6. Hospitals under Growing Pressure from Marketisation
and Privatisation Thorsten Schulten and Nils Böhlke 7. Company Responses to
Liberalisation and Privatisation and Consequences for Employment and
Working Conditions Jörg Flecker and Christoph Hermann 8. Privatisation and
the Impact on Employment Wieslawa Kozek, Beata Radzka and Christoph Hermann
9. Privatisation and the Impact on Labour Relations Thorsten Schulten and
Torsten Brandt 10. The Struggle for Public Services Christoph Hermann,
Julia Kubisa and Thorsten Schulten 11. The Citizen-User Perspective:
Results From a Cross-Country Survey Guy van Gyes and Sem Vandekerckhove
12. Conclusion: Impacts of Public Service Liberalisation and Privatisation
Christoph Hermann and Jörg Flecker. Contributors. Notes. Index