Peter Fairbrother is Professor of International Employment Relations and Director of the Centre for Governance, Work and Technologies, RMIT University, Australia.John O’Brien is an Associate of the Industrial Relations Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia.Anne Junor is Deputy Director of the Industrial Relations Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia.Michael O’Donnell is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia.Glynne Williams is Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

'As a tightly argued, well-designed piece of work, it makes a distinctive contribution to debates on public management and industrial relations. Indeed, in so doing, it should be of interest to policymakers, practitioners and scholars across both domains.' - Ian Kessler, King's College London, UK in Journal of Industrial Relations, Jan 21, 2013

• 1. State Restructuring in Two States 2. Changing State Management and Trade Unions: A Conceptual Analysis 3. Pathways to Change: The Restructuring of the Administrative State 4. Trade Unions Addressing Change 5. Remoulding the State Labour Process 6. The State, Depoliticisation and Unions 7. Public Sector Unions: Contesting Individualisation, Defending Collectivity 8. A Way Forward?