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Labour Relations and Health Reform

A Comparative Study of Five Jurisdictions

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  • © 2005

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  1. Kurt Wetzel
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Kurt Wetzel
    Pages 1-11

  3. Health Service Reform and the Modernization of Employment Relations: The Case of the United Kingdom

    • Stephen Bach
    Pages 12-46

  4. Health Labour Relations and the New Zealand Revolution

    • Kurt Wetzel
    Pages 47-85

  5. The Canadian Context

    • Kurt Wetzel
    Pages 86-90

  6. The Labour Relations of Saskatchewan’s Health Reform

    • Kurt Wetzel
    Pages 91-126

  7. Health Labour Relations in the Klein Era

    • Kurt Wetzel
    Pages 127-161

  8. The Labour Relations of Public Health Care Reform in New South Wales

    • Nadine White, Mark Bray
    Pages 162-197

  9. Comparative Analysis and Conclusions

    • Kurt Wetzel
    Pages 198-222

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 223-230
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About this book

Over the past 25 years, governments that operate publicly-funded health care systems have endeavoured to modernize service delivery and to control health spending. This has occasioned high profile efforts to reform and restructure previously stable health systems. Health organizations are typically complex, labour intensive and unionized. Health reform can have enormous consequences for workers and their unions. Governments' ideologies determine the nature of reform initiatives. This book examines the experiences of five jurisdictions - Great Britain, New Zealand, New South Wales, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

About the author

STEPHEN BACH Reader in Employment Relations and Management, King's College, UK MARK BRAY Professor of Employment Studies and Head of Newcastle Business School, Newcastle University, UK NADINE WHITE Lecturer, School of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia and PhD candidate, Newcastle Business School, Newcastle University, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Labour Relations and Health Reform

  • Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Five Jurisdictions

  • Authors: Kurt Wetzel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514621

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9865-1Published: 11 October 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51462-1Published: 10 October 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 230

  • Topics: Human Resource Management, Management

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