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Public Sector Employment Regimes

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Waste collection is one of the long-established core public services provided at the local level. In many urban areas, public waste collection was established in the mid-19th century with the main aim of securing public health in an era of rapid urbanization and industrialization (Hafkamp 2002; Hemmer et al. 2003). Until the 1970s, municipal responsibility and service provision by a public workforce were major characteristics of the organization of waste collection throughout Europe (Hafkamp 2002, p. 13). Despite technical innovations that led to improvements of working conditions, waste collection is still very demanding in terms of human resources and remains largely heavy labour for employees (European Commission 2001, p. 19). Except for a few technical or coordinative professions, tasks are performed by drivers, collectors, and other manual occupations (European Commission 2001, p. 24). Workers often have little formal qualifications and belong to a group that is often affected by relatively low pay and high unemployment rates in the private sector (Sengenberger 1987; Keller 2008). By contrast, in the ‘Golden Age’ of TRUDI, the public sector constituted a large, protected, internal labour market with a high degree of job security and — for the lower pay grades, such as in the field of waste collection — pay premiums in comparison to the private sector (Sengenberger 1987; Tepe and Kroos 2010). Furthermore, employment regulations in the public sector often served as a reference point for those areas of the private sector where the service was publicly funded but provided by a private company, as in the case of private waste collection (Ambrosius 2008).

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  1. University of Bremen, Germany

    Karin Gottschall (Professor of Sociology)

  2. University of Vienna, Austria

    Bernhard Kittel (Professor of Economic Sociology)

  3. University of Strathclyde, UK

    Kendra Briken (Lecturer)

  4. Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

    Jan-Ocko Heuer (Postdoctoral Researcher)

  5. University of Bremen, Germany

    Sylvia Hils (Research Assistant)

  6. Bremen, Germany

    Sebastian Streb

  7. University of Oldenburg, Germany

    Markus Tepe (Professor of Political Science)

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Gottschall, K. et al. (2015). Waste Collection. In: Public Sector Employment Regimes. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313119_7

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