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Enduring National Varieties Under Market Strain

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This final chapter discusses the main findings drawn from the three countries—Italy, Denmark and Britain—in a comparative perspective and integrates them into an overall conclusion. It starts with a comparative account of the major consequences of outsourcing in public services for employment, working conditions, and distribution of market risks, linking the different trajectories of change to the enduring variety and to the resilience of national regimes in public sector employment relations under market strain. The chapter then discusses the strategies that trade unions undertook to cope with market-driven challenges for employment and the impacts that outsourcing practices had on the union role and collective bargaining institutions. The following section examines the role played by the state—both direct and indirect—in interplay with market pressures and the alternatively market-making or market-embedding effects this interaction triggered on the system of public procurement. The chapter ends with an elaboration of a refined categorisation of national models in public sector employment relations.

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Mori, A. (2020). Enduring National Varieties Under Market Strain. In: Employment Relations in Outsourced Public Services. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24627-3_8

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