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Job quality matters; it is offered as a solution to an array of social and economic challenges, yet the terminology used to define it is varied. This handbook explores the complexity of job quality, for whom or for what job quality matters most, and the diverse range of its contributions and applications to social, economic, and political concerns.
Sommario
- Job Quality Matters
- Section I: The Foundations of Job Quality
- 1: David Guest: The Quality of Working Life
- 2: Ian Hampson and Åke Sandberg: The Swedish Contribution to Job Quality
- 3: Chris Warhurst, Sally Wright, and Chris Mathieu: Job Quality: A Family Affair?
- Section II: Understanding Job quality
- 4: Sven Hauff and Stefan Kirchner: Understanding Differences and Trends in Job Quality: Perspectives from Cross-National Research
- 5: Angela Knox and Sally Wright: Understanding Job Quality Using Qualitative Research
- 6: Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Enrique Fernández-Macías, and José-Ignacio Antón: Quantitative Approaches to Assessing Jobs
- 7: John Godard: Institutions, Societies, and the Quality of Employment
- Section III: Key Issues in Job Quality
- 8: Maarten Goos, Emilie Rademakers, Anna Salomons, and Marieke Vandeweyer: Job Polarization: Its History, an Intuitive Framework, and Some Empirical Evidence
- 9: Sally Weller, Tom Barnes, and Nicholas Kimberley: Geographies of Job Quality
- 10: Maria Albin, Chris Mathieu, Esa-Pekka Takala, and Töres Theorell: The Cornerstone of Job Quality: Occupational Safety and Health
- 11: Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael Grande, and Enrique Fernández-Macías: Innovation and Job Quality
- 12: Amada Armenta and Shannon Gleeson: Immigration and Job Quality
- 13: Duncan Gallie: Inequality in Job Quality: Class, Gender, and Contract Type
- Section IV: Regional Developments in Job Quality
- 14: Arne L. Kalleberg, Sylvia Fuller, and Ashley Pullman: Job Quality in the United States and Canada
- 15: Christine Erhel, Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière, Janine Leschke, and Andrew Watt: The Great Recession and Job Quality Trends in Europe
- 16: Sandrine Cazes, Paolo Falco, and Balint Menyhért: Job Quality in Emerging Economies through the Lens of the OECD Job Quality Framework
- Section V: Sectoral Developments in Job Quality
- 17: Mary Gatta: Job Quality in High Touch Services
- 18: Jeffrey S. Rothstein: The Steady but Uneven Decline in Manufacturing Job Quality
- 19: Carsten Sauer, Peter Valet, Vincent J. Roscigno, and George Wilson: Neoliberalism's Impact on Public Sector Job Quality: The US and Germany Compared
- 20: Orly Benjamin: Job Quality for Service and Care Occupations: A Feminist Perspective
- 21: Chris Baldry: The Changing Quality of Office Work
- 22: Paul Edwards and Monder Ram: Job quality and the Small Firm
- Section VI: Improving job quality
- 23: Peter Boxall and John Purcell: Human Resource Management and Job Quality
- 24: Stephen F. Befort, Silvia Borelli, and John W. Budd: Using Efficiency, Equity, and Voice for Defining Job Quality, and Legal Regulation for Achieving It
- 25: Mel Simms: Trade Unions and Job quality
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Chris Warhurst is Professor and Director of the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick in the UK, a Trustee of the Tavistock Institute in London, and a Research Associate of SKOPE at Oxford University.
Chris Mathieu is Docent in the Sociology of Work and Organisation at the Department of Sociology, Lund University.
Rachel E. Dwyer PhD is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Population Research at The Ohio State University.
Riassunto
Job quality matters; it is offered as a solution to an array of social and economic challenges, yet the terminology used to define it is varied. This handbook explores the complexity of job quality, for whom or for what job quality matters most, and the diverse range of its contributions and applications to social, economic, and political concerns.
