Description: This book challenges the Government's portrayal of competition policies as self-evident sources of improvement for public services.
Brief description: Amy Ludlow is a Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Gonville and Caius College and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
Review Quotes: "In Privatising Public Prisons: Labour Law and the Public Procurement Process Amy Ludlow has provided a beautifully-written, compellingly argued, and thought-provoking account of the operation of the privatization process in the prison sector from the perspective of affected employees...a highly readable and balanced account that should be of considerable appeal to policy makers as well as academics..." --Journal of Law and Society