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- ISBN 0-9698064-3-4
- $18.95
- Labour Relations
- 208pp
- 1996
In Hard Bargain, Dr. Peter Warrian cogently describes how deficit pressures, new management techniques and corporate fervour have constructed a hostile environment for the public sector. The public sector is the most highly unionized sector of the economy and Dr. Warrian argues that solving public sector problems requires revamping public sector industrial relations, not busting unions. The public sector must grow beyond the constraints of the Wagner model of labour relations, and in search of innovation, Dr. Warrian surveys strategies in use across North America. Hard Bargain includes an incisive chapter tracing the advent, features and application of the contract theory of government internationally. Essential reading for practitioners and analysts of labour-management relations.
"This book reads as a wakeup call to the parties in the public sector."
Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations