Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Europe -- The characteristics of public service employment relations -- Challenges to the public sector -- The framework -- State policies -- Employers' policies -- Trade unions -- Collective bargaining -- Transformation, modernization or inertia? -- References -- 2 Britain -- Definitions of public service sectors -- Organizational structure, employment and salaries -- The composition of employment -- Labour markets and salaries -- Employers and employers' associations -- State policies -- The characteristics of public service employers -- The civil service -- The National Health Service -- Local authorities -- The status and role of managers -- Employers' associations -- Trade unions -- The legal framework -- Trade union structure and organization -- Trade union membership -- Workplace organization and representation -- Public sector labour relations -- Historical overview -- The forms and principles of pay determination -- Levels of collective bargaining -- The civil service -- The health service -- Local authorities -- Pay outcomes and trends -- Industrial conflict -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 Germany -- The focus of the analysis -- Organizational structure, employment and wages -- Organizational structure of the main sectors -- The composition of employment -- Public sector labour markets -- Wages and salaries -- Employers and employers' associations -- State policies and public sector regulation -- Status and role of public managers -- Employers' associations -- Trade unions -- Trade union structure and organization -- Union confederations -- Workplace representation -- Public sector labour relations -- Overview -- Collective bargaining structure -- Industrial disputes -- The settlement of disputes -- Relations between the parties.

Conclusion -- Coping with unification -- Future challenges -- References -- 4 Italy -- Definition of the public service sector -- Organizational structure, employment and wages -- Organization of the main sectors -- Composition of employment -- The public sector labour market -- Wages and salaries -- Employers and employers' associations -- State policies -- The characteristics of public service employers -- The health services -- The school sector -- The local authorities -- The status and role of managers -- Employers' associations -- The trade unions -- Legal framework -- Trade union membership -- Trade union structure and fragmentation -- The problem of trade union representativeness -- Representation at workplace level -- Public sector labour relations -- The structure of collective bargaining -- Collective bargaining trends and outcomes -- Relations outside collective bargaining -- Labour conflicts and the regulation of strikes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 France -- Definitions of public service sectors -- Organizational structure, employment and wages -- Organization of the main sectors -- Central government -- Local government -- National health service -- Education -- Composition of employment -- The public sector labour market -- The civil service -- Public hospitals -- Education -- Wages and salaries -- Employers and employers' associations -- State policies -- The characteristics of public service employers -- Education -- Local authorities -- Public hospitals -- Trade unions -- Public sector labour relations -- Collective bargaining -- Joint regulation -- Education -- Hospitals -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Spain -- Organizational structure, employment and salaries -- Organizational structure -- Composition of employment -- The public sector labour market -- Pay and salaries -- Employers and employers' associations.

State policies -- The characteristics of public service employers -- The status and role of managers -- Trade unions -- The legal framework -- Trade unions in the public services -- Union membership -- Negotiating arrangements -- Representativeness and union elections -- Labour relations in the public sector -- Collective bargaining -- Disputes, mediation and arbitration -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Denmark -- Organizational structure, employment and wages -- Organizational structure of the main sectors -- The composition of public sector employment -- The public sector labour market -- Wages and salaries -- Employers and employers' associations -- State policies -- Public sector employers -- The status and role of public managers -- Employers' associations -- The trade unions -- The legal framework -- Trade union organization and structure -- The state sub-sector -- The county/municipal sector -- Public sector employment relations -- The collective bargaining system -- Collective bargaining structure -- Industrial disputes -- Workers' participation -- Public sector consensus and informal relations -- Conciliation and the settlement of disputes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.