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      Call for Papers: Hierarchies of domesticity – spatial and social boundaries. Deadline for submissions is 30th September, 2024. Full details can be read here.

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      Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

      Volume 2, Issue 2
       
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      The new gold rush: the new multinationals and the commodification of public sector work

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            This article describes the growth of the new ‘public services industry’ and outlines the way in which government-provided services can be transformed into commodities and opened up as new fields of activity for private companies. Pointing out that many of these companies have become major transnational enterprises, it then goes on to introduce the other articles in this collection, which focus on the commodification, corporatisation and privatisation of a range of public and government support services, including health, education, transport, energy and water supply, telecommunications, waste disposal, customer services, IT support and postal services. Many of these articles focus on the impact of restructuring on industrial relations, labour processes, working conditions and occupational identities and conclude that these developments are associated with the intensification and casualisation of work, derecognition of unions and continuing elaborations of the international division of labour.

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            Journal ID (doi): 10.13169
            Journal ID (publisher-id): workorgalaboglob
            Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
            Publisher: Pluto Journals
            ISSN (Print): 1745641X
            ISSN (Electronic): 17456428
            Publication date (Print): Autumn 2008
            Volume: 2
            Issue: 2
            Pages: 1-8
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            Publisher ID: workorgalaboglob.2.2.0001
            DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.2.2.0001
            SO-VID: b25380e5-3be0-4459-a877-53142f17b296
            Copyright © © Ursula Huws, 2008
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            ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Labor law,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics

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