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Abstract title: Public sector trade unions in the face of privatisation
Author:

Mike Waghorne

Issue: Volume 9, Number 5 1999

This paper looks at the nature and extent of privatisation around the world, including an analysis of the bodies or interests which promote this panacea policy. It identifies a number of responses which public sector trade unions have made to such policies, especially where these have been ideologically driven. It offers some examples of ways in which trade unions have developed their own models/proposals for modernisation of public services and shows how these have been both challenges and benefits to unions and service recipients. It looks at how agencies such as the World Bank have responded to these initiatives.

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