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Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic
restructuring processes in recent years in connection with
liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the
successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency,
much less attention has been paid to the impacts of liberalization
and privatization on employment, labor relations, and working
conditions. This book addresses this gap by illustrating 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. The result is a unique picture of the changes created
by the liberalization processes in Europe.
This book investigates the interplay of the recent transformation
of working life and the growing appeal of political right-wing
populism and extremism in Europe. It explores the individual and
collective reactions and the strategies people develop in order to
come to terms with socio-economic change. It raises the question of
whether, and to what extent, changes in the employment system and
in working life contribute to making people receptive to
xenophobia, nationalism and racism. Based on an eight country study
using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, this
volume makes a significant contribution to the deeper understanding
of the subjective reactions to socio-economic change and its
political reverberations.
This edited volume seeks to enhance our understanding of the
concepts of space and place in the study of digital work. It argues
that while digital work is often presented as 'placeless', work
always takes place somewhere with a certain degree of local
embeddedness. Contributors to this collection address restructuring
processes that bring about delocalised digital work and point out
limitations to dislocation inherent in the work itself, and the
social relations or the physical artefacts involved. Exploring the
dynamics of global value chains and shifts in the international
division of labour, this book explores the impact these have on
employment and working conditions, workers' agency in shaping and
coping with changes in work, and the new competencies needed in
virtual organisational environments. Combining different
disciplinary perspectives, the volume teases out the spatial
aspects of digital work at different scales ranging from team level
to that of global production networks.
Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic
restructuring processes in recent years in connection with
liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the
successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency,
much less attention has been paid to the impacts of liberalization
and privatization on employment, labor relations, and working
conditions. This book addresses this gap by illustrating 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. The result is a unique picture of the changes created
by the liberalization processes in Europe.
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