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What A Waste: Outsourcing and how it goes wrong (Manchester Capitalism MUP)
Michael Moran (Ed.)
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Description for What A Waste: Outsourcing and how it goes wrong (Manchester Capitalism MUP)
Hardcover. Documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector, and balances critique with practical suggestions for policy reform Series: Manchester Capitalism. Num Pages: 132 pages, 40 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JPP; KJVN; KJVT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the ... Read more
This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Manchester Capitalism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719099526
SKU
V9780719099526
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99-15
About Michael Moran (Ed.)
Andrew Bowman is a member of the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change Ismail Erturk is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Business School and a member of CRESC Peter Folkman is Honorary Professor at Manchester Business School and a member of CRESC Julie Froud is Professor of Financial Innovation at ... Read more
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