Book Review: Gra o jutro usług publicznych w Polsce (The Game for the Future of Public Services in Poland), Kozek, W. (red.). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego: 2011: 265: ISBN 9788323506683.

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The book ‘A Game on the Future of Public Services in Poland’, edited by Wiesława Kozek and published in 2011 by University of Warsaw Publishing House, comes exactly on time to deliver up-to-date comparative information about the public sector restructuring in Europe and its impact on the quality of the public services. The editor and the authors of nine chapters (Wiesława Kozek, Agnieszka Maciuk-Grochowska, Beata Radzka, Julia Kubisa, Damian Podawca, Piotr Ostrowski, Joerg Flecker, Christoph Hermann) draw from the results of three-year project PIQUE (Privatisation of Public Services and the Impact on Quality, Employment and Productivity), as well as research of the Sociology of Work and Organisation Unit of the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. The PIQUE project was carried out in the years 2006–2009 and founded by the European Commission 6th Framework Programme. Based on the project’s results, the book cover four sectors, electricity, postal services, local public transport and health services/hospitals in six European countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Sweden and the UK). The sectors were chosen to reflect the diff erentiated levels of liberalisation and privatisation and the variety of regulatory solutions. Obviously, the main focus of the book is on Poland, but the authors pay particular attention to the international contextualisation of their sectoral and company cases.

Keywords

EN

privatisation of public services; public services; public sector; Poland; labour relations

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
• Journal: Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 160-166

Contributors

reviewer

Mrozowicki Adam

• University of Wrocław, Institute of Sociology