Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Volume 2, Issue 2

Issue date: 01 October 2008

The new gold rush: the new multinationals and the commodification of public sector work Ursula Huws	1
Commodifying health care: the UK's National Health Service and the Independent Sector Treatment Centre Programme Stewart Player, Colin Leys	9
The new public service transnationals: consequences for labour Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes	23
Commodification, casualisation and intensification of work in liberalised European postal markets Christoph Hermann, Torsten Brandt, Thorsten Schulten	40
The politics of union-government relations: Public transport in two Australian states Ruth Barton, Peter Fairbrother	56
Privatisation of public services in the EU: an attack on social cohesion and democracy Birgit Mahnkopf	72
Mopping up the labour shortage: the privatisation of waste management and gendered work reorganisation Melanie Samson	85
The reformatting of state control in Vietnam Chris Dixon	101
The impact of hospital privatisation on industrial relations and employees: the case of the Hamburg hospitals Nils Böhlke	119
Reorganising the front line: the case of public call centre services Annika Schönauer	131
The end of the road, no more walking in dead men shoes: IT professionals' experience of being outsourced to the private sector Simone Dahlmann	148
‘Everywhere is becoming the same’? labour utilisation, regulation and the tensions inherent in transnational IT production Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, Patrick Feuerstein	162