11.   Appointments to administrative posts in government departments, public enterprises and other state bureaus are controlled by the appropriate party committee.

12.   This book is a study of how change comes about in the industrial relations of public enterprises.

13.   In recent years, the outbreak of major industrial relations conflicts in public enterprises has attracted attention not only in Britain but in France, Spain and elsewhere.

14.   Governments have tried to introduce the disciplines of the market into the management of public enterprises, and in many cases, have returned companies to the private sector.

15.   One of the main arguments used by politicians in the debate has been that the typical industrial relations practices of public enterprises have impeded efficiency.

16.   This study will take a different approach to identifying the peculiarities of public enterprise industrial relations.

17.   Second, it also enables general features of public enterprise behaviour to be explored.

18.   Weaver shows, for example, that a certain peculiar kind of process is occurring when public enterprise objectives are being determined.

19.   One of the major themes of the present study is that variations in the political response to economic crisis profoundly affect readjustments in the public enterprise sector.

20.   Public enterprises are part of the state, and its typical forms of organization and behaviour will be mirrored in them.