Towards Democratic Ownership of Public Services

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* Report: The Future is Public: Towards Democratic Ownership of Public Services (258 pages).

URL = https://futureispublic.org/#book

Also a conference in Amsterdam, December 4-5, 2022


Context

"We are living in a crucial moment. Cities are on the front lines of today’s most urgent challenges, including fighting climate change and rising inequality, as well as the need to support refugees and provide universal access to public services that are human rights including housing, drinking water and sanitation services, energy, health care and education. These global problems call for public solutions.

A growing network of progressive, green municipalities is developing strategies to tackle these and many other critical issues. Cities are well positioned to explore direct democracy, and advance innovative economic models that build community wealth and create decent jobs. At the same time, we need a national level of coordination and ambition to reverse market fundamentalism, which is the root cause of our collective economic and social crises. Profit-driven, market-based policies led to the privatisation of our public services and to the denigration of solidarity and public service."

(https://futureispublic.org/)


Contents

  • Introduction by the Editorial Team

Part 1. Reclaiming public services around the world

  • Chapter 1 Norway: Bankruptcy sparks more than 100 cases of remunicipalisation– By Nina Monsen and Bjørn Pettersen
  • Chapter 2 Paris celebrates a decade of public water success – By Célia Blauel
  • Chapter 3 Canada: Local insourcing in face of national privatisation push – By Robert Ramsay
  • Chapter 4 Problems without benefits? The Danish experience with outsourcing and remunicipalisation – By Thomas Enghausen
  • Chapter 5 Africa: Private waste service failure and alternative vision – By Vera Weghmann
  • Chapter 6 National, regional and local moves towards public ownership in the UK – By David Hall
  • Chapter 7 Putting the ‘public’ in public services: (Re)municipalisation cases in Malaysia and the Philippines – By Mary Ann Manahan and Laura Stegemann
  • Chapter 8 Rebuilding public ownership in Chile: Social practices of the Recoleta commune and challenges to overcoming neoliberalism – By Alexander Panez Pinto
  • Chapter 9 United States: Communities providing affordable, fast broadband Internet – By Thomas M. Hanna and Christopher Mitchell


Part 2. From (re)municipalisation to democratic public ownership

  • Chapter 10 A new water culture: Catalonia’s public co-governance model in the making – By Míriam Planas and Juan Martínez
  • Chapter 11 The empire strikes back: Corporate responses to remunicipalisation – By Olivier Petitjean
  • Chapter 12 The labour dimension of remunicipalisation: Public service workers and trade unions in transition – By Daria Cibrario
  • Chapter 13 Knowledge creation and sharing through public-public partnership in the water sector – By Milo Fiasconaro
  • Chapter 14 Transforming the state: Towards democracy-driven public ownership – By Hilary Wainwright
  • Chapter 15 Putting energy democracy at the heart of a Green New Deal to counter the climate catastrophe – By Lavinia Steinfort
  • Conclusion by the Editorial Team
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