This volume analyzes changing work and employment in British public services. Critically engaging with debates around the ideological, regulatory and social drivers of change, it analyzes important employment relationships. The book tackles key issues, and reflects on public service productivity and its comparative context.

PHILLIP BEAUMONT Professor of Employment Relations, School of Management, University of Glasgow, Scotland SUSAN CORBY Reader in Employment Relations, Business School, University of Greenwich, UK IAN CUNNINGHAM Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Department of Human Resource Management, University of Strathclyde, Scotland MOIRA FISCHBACHER Senior Lecturer in Strategy, school of Business and Management, University of Glasgow, Scotland JOHN GRAHL Professor of European Integration, Middlesex University Business School, Middlesex University, UK DAMIEN GRIMSHAW Professor of Employment Studies, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK DAVID MARSDEN Professor of Industrial Relations, London school of Economics, UK MIGUEL MARTINEZ LUCIO Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, School of Management, University of Bradford, UK CATHERINE NEEDHAM Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London JUDY PATE Lecturer in Strategy, School of Business and Management, University of Glasgow, Scotland MARK STUART Professor of Human Resource Management and employment Relations, Leeds University Business School, UK NOEL THOMPSON Professor of History, School of Humanities, University of Wales, Swansea, Wales