Between state and market: the puzzle of employment relations in the public sector. A tribute to Lorenzo Bordogna

Journal title GIORNALE DI DIRITTO DEL LAVORO E DI RELAZIONI INDUSTRIALI
Author/s Stephen Bach
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2023/180
Language English Pages 12 P. 513-524 File size 634 KB
DOI 10.3280/GDL2023-180001
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Public service employment relations are experiencing a heightened period of disruption. In many countries labour shortages are evident in essential services and industrial action has re-emerged forcibly. Governments In European countries are struggling to reconcile fiscal constraints, rising demand and to maintain an engaged workforce. These challenges shape employment relations in the sector and the contradictory policies and interests that govern the public sector. These puzzles and the way in which they are constructed and partially resolved by the state in different countries was at the centre of the scholarship of Lorenzo Bordogna, reviewed and celebrated in this article.

Keywords: Public sector; Strikes; State; Trade unions; New Public Management.

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Stephen Bach, Between state and market: the puzzle of employment relations in the public sector. A tribute to Lorenzo Bordogna in "GIORNALE DI DIRITTO DEL LAVORO E DI RELAZIONI INDUSTRIALI " 180/2023, pp 513-524, DOI: 10.3280/GDL2023-180001