The privatization and the Welfare State: A case of back to the future? -- Reasons for privatization -- Private finance: A driving force to enhance efficiency -- Public service and private profit: The managerial limits to enterprise -- Some political and economic issues raised by privatization -- Recreating the past: The end of state dirigisme and the creation of a private university sector in Britain -- Privatization: Some implications for education -- The question of privatization in the British Post Office: A discussion -- Privatizing the Police Force: Issues and arguments -- Franchise operations, competition and consumer welfare: The privatization of British Rail passenger services -- Improving management in Government? The creation of the executive agencies -- NHS plc? -- Employees and the privatization of the water industry in England and Wales -- Privatization and the employment relationship -- Consumers and privatization: The case of the water industry -- Empowering the consumer: The case of social housing

1. Privatization -- Great Britain -- Case studies
2. Municipal services -- Great Britain
3. Public utilities -- Great Britain
4. Industrial relations -- Great Britain
5. Great Britain -- Economic policy -- 1979-1997
6. Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979-
7. Welfare state