The economic globalization brought a shift from Keynesian State to the competitive State, which accepts a fierceinternational competition, enforcing national economic groups. Economic restructuring, together with the opening ofmarkets forced these States to cut off labour costs, in order to attract foreign investment. This article analyses thecontracting out system in two of the four biggest telecommunications public enterprises. The research points to theadoption of several kinds of contracting out practices, some of them rather unusual. This situation brought changes in both the management and the labour relations.
competitive State; contracting out; contracting out the contracting out; labour relations; public services change