en English New Labour's Attack on Public Services European Services Strategy Unit : Publications : Books and articles by Dexter Whitfield :New Labour's Attack on Public Services New Labour is creating markets in public services on an unprecedented scale. Education, health and social care, children’s services, housing, planning and regeneration, the criminal justice system and the welfare state are all being marketised. Privatisation inevitably follows marketisation, eroding democratic accountability and embedding business interests. The impact will be far reaching. Any benefits in terms of economic, social and sustainable development that are gained through regional strategies and city regions could evaporate if market forces are allowed to run rampant across the public sector. Alternative policies and strategies must build on the support for democratic governance, social justice and the welfare state. As this timely book makes clear, action by alliances of trade unions, community organisations and civil society organisations is urgently required. Dexter Whitfield European Services Strategy Unit, Duagh, Camp, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. marketisation privatisation transformation modernisation New Labour outsourcing welfare state public services infrastructure PPPs PFI neoliberalism globalisation european services directive markets liberalisation restructuring alternative strategies PPP PFI affordability refinancing democratic accountability risk public sector reconfiguring services public services best value privatisation value for money public investment procurement facilities management in-house services two-tier workforce public assets corporate welfare public goods transaction costs public sector comparator public private partnerships private finance private finance initiative Dexter Whitfield Trade UnionsGovernment BodiesCommunity Organisations Books and articles by Dexter Whitfield Spokesman Books link to Spokesman Books XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) Level Double-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit text/html HTML 2006-11-28T12:54:53Z Created 2011-07-30T13:06:28Z Modified