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Informationen zum Autor STEPHEN BACH Reader in Employment Relations and Management, King's College, UKMARK BRAY Professor of Employment Studies and Head of Newcastle Business School, Newcastle University, UKNADINE WHITE Lecturer, School of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia and PhD candidate, Newcastle Business School, Newcastle University, UK Klappentext Over the past 25 years, governments that operate publicly-funded health care systems have endeavoured to modernize service delivery and to control health spending. This has occasioned high profile efforts to reform and restructure previously stable health systems. Health organizations are typically complex, labour intensive and unionized. Health reform can have enormous consequences for workers and their unions. Governments' ideologies determine the nature of reform initiatives. This book examines the experiences of five jurisdictions - Great Britain, New Zealand, New South Wales, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Zusammenfassung Over the past 25 years, governments that operate publicly-funded health care systems have endeavoured to modernize service delivery and to control health spending. This has occasioned high profile efforts to reform and restructure previously stable health systems. Health organizations are typically complex, labour intensive and unionized. Health reform can have enormous consequences for workers and their unions. Governments' ideologies determine the nature of reform initiatives. This book examines the experiences of five jurisdictions - Great Britain, New Zealand, New South Wales, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; K.Wetzel The Industrial Relations of Health Care Reform in Britain: Markets, Hierarchies and Modernisation; S.Bach Health Labour Relations and the New Zealand Revolution; K.Wetzel The Canadian Context; K.Wetzel The Labour Relations of Saskatchewan's Health Reform; K.Wetze l Health Labour Relations in the Klein Era; K.Wetzel The Labour Relations of Public Healthcare Reform in New South Wales; N.White & M.Bray Comparative Analysis and Conclusions; K.Wetzel...
