Routledge studies in employment and work relations in context ;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The enduring question of the state / Peter Fairbrother and Al Rainnie -- Restructuring state-economy relations : Britain under the Major and Blair governments / Peter Burnham -- The state we are in (and against) / Al Rainnie and Peter Fairbrother -- The emergence of the 'de-centred' British state / Peter Fairbrother -- New public management in Denmark : the restructuring of employment relations in a welfare state labour market / Nikolaj Lubanski and Soren Kaj Andersen -- Changing public sector industrial relations in the Australian Commonwealth / John O'Brien -- Public sector restructuring, management strategy, and trade union response : the New Zealand experience / Pat Walsh, Sarah Oxenbridge, and Kurt Wetzel -- The restructuring of national states in the global economy / Bob Carter.
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The world is undergoing enormous change involving politics, the economy and society, however the position and place of the state and the significance of state policy in this process is heavily contested. This text presents a timely opportunity to re-assess the modern state in regard to labour.