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The chapter aims to present the administrative and regulatory framework of the British public sector, as in terms of employment relations institutions and actors, collective bargaining structure and the main drivers underpinning outsourcing in public services. The objective is to provide an informative institutional background to frame and understand the processes of outsourcing in public services in the country and the consequences for working conditions, trade unions, employment relations and the role of the state. Hence, after an introductory administrative overview of the country, the chapter presents the main transformations and reforms of public sector employment relations and the country-specific institutions of collective bargaining. The following section describes the most relevant social partners in the public services and their organisational structure and composition. A final section examines the main drivers of outsourcing in Britain, including both the extensive legislative interventions that promoted market competition in public services and the austerity measures reducing the budgetary endowment for public administrations.
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Mori, A. (2020). The Neoliberal Agenda: Structure of Public Sector and Drivers of Outsourcing. In: Employment Relations in Outsourced Public Services. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24627-3_6
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