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Zusatztext Employment Regimes and the Quality of Workrepresents a major breakthrough as it provides a welcome link between research on job quality and research on comparative economic organization. A pioneering contribution to our understanding of job quality in general and across Europe in particular. Informationen zum Autor Duncan Gallie is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. His research has focussed on the changing experience of work and on the social consequences of unemployment. He was national coordinator of the ESRC's Social Change and Economic Life Initiative and has been European coordinator of several EU cross-national research programmes. He is Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy and was a member of the EU's Advisory Group for the Social Sciences and Humanities for the Sixth Framework Programme. Klappentext The book makes a major new contribution to the sociology of employment by comparing the quality of working life in European societies with very different institutional systems - France! Germany! Great Britain! Spain! and Sweden. Zusammenfassung The book makes a major new contribution to the sociology of employment by comparing the quality of working life in European societies with very different institutional systems - France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and Sweden. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Duncan Gallie: Production Regimes, Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work 2: Michael Tahlin: Skills and Wages in European Labour Markets: Structure and Change 3: Martine Dieckhoff, Jean-Marie Jungblut and Philip J. O'Connell: Job-Related Training in Europe: Do Institutions Matter? 4: Duncan Gallie: Task Discretion and Job Quality 5: Stefani Scherer and Nadia Steiber: Work and Family in Conflict? The Impact of Work Demands on Family Life 6: Serge Paugam and Ying Zhou: Job Insecurity 7: Duncan Gallie: The Quality of Work Life in Comparative Perspective References Index ...
