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This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum-seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine ‘follow the money’ research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform. -- .
This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine 'follow the money' research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform. -- .
For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that experiment by detailed examination of three sectors: broadband, food supply and retail banking. The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing whereby the right to trade in foundational activities would be dependent on the discharge of social obligations in the form of sourcing, training and living wages. Written by a team of researchers and policy advocates based at the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change, this book combines rigour and readability, and will be relevant to practitioners, policy makers, academics and engaged citizens. -- .
This book represents the first comparative study of how health
policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case
histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care
systems and modern states are indissolubly bound together. The
author explains how the health care state originated before the
rise of democracy, and demonstrates that it has had to confront the
twin pressures of democratic politics and competitive capitalism.
It focuses on three important arenas of health care politics--the
government of consumption, the government of doctors, and the
government of medical technology--and illustrates how these three
arenas intersect.
This book contains all you wish to know about amassing 'treasure' on the cheap. From an 18TH century Chelsea porcelain figurine acquired by the author for 20 pence at a jumble sale, to a Charles II commemorative copper box full of English hammered silver coinage found, once again. by the author, in the foreshore of the muddy river Thames in the heart of London. Lavishly illustrated with many discoveries made between the years of 1970 to 2004, wonderful objects, and all acquired from hunting treasure on a true shoestring budget..
What is the relationship between the financial system and politics?
In a democratic system, what kind of control should elected
governments have over the financial markets? What policies should
be implemented to regulate them? What is the role played by
different elites--financial, technocratic, and political--in the
operation and regulation of the financial system? And what role
should citizens, investors, and savers play?
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