| Title |
Are bad jobs inevitable? : trends, determinants and responses to job quality in the twenty-first century / edited by Chris Warhurst ... [and others]. |
| OCLC |
758982862 |
| ISBN |
9780230336919 (pbk.) |
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0230336914 (pbk.) |
| Publisher |
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2012] |
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©2012 |
| Description |
xvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Quality of work life.
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Work environment.
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Labor laws and legislation.
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| Summary |
"Job quality matters. It contributes to economic competitiveness, social cohesion and personal well-being. Focusing on "bad jobs", this book outlines debates, developments, issues and trends in job quality whilst asking the question are bad jobs inevitable?. Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, the book defines and measures bad jobs; explains variation and change in job quality; and identifies workplace practices and broader non-workplace strategies for making bad jobs better." -- Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Job quality: scenarios, analysis and interventions / Françoise Carré ... [et al.] -- Identifying bad jobs across Europe / José-Ignacio Antón, Enrique Fernández-Macías and Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo -- Job quality in the US: the myths that block action / Paul Osterman -- Good jobs, bad jobs and the Australian experience / Barbara Pocock and Natalie Skinner -- A framework for international comparative analysis of the determinants of low-wage job quality / Françoise Carré and Chris Tilly -- At the altar of shareholder value?: corporate governance and conditions for better jobs in Swedish manufacturing / Tony Huzzard -- Making bad jobs better: the case of frontline health care workers / Janette S. Dill, Jennifer Craft Morgan and Arne L. Kalleberg -- When good jobs go bad: the declining quality of auto work in the global economy / Jeffrey S. Rothstein -- Frontline managers matter: labour flexibility practices and sustained employment in US retail jobs / Susan J. Lambert and Julia R. Henly -- Good or bad jobs?: contrasting workers' expectations and jobs in Mexican call centres / José Luis Álvarez Galván -- Thirty years of hospital cleaning in England and Scotland: an opportunity for "better" jobs? / Anne Munro -- Unpacking the logics of labour standards enforcement: an alternative approach / Janice Fine and Jennifer Gordon -- Under the radar: tracking the violation of labour standards in low-wage industries in the US / Nik Theodore ... [et al.] -- Employment standards "modernization" in Canada / Mark P. Thomas -- Are skills the answer to bad jobs?: incentives to learn at the bottom end of the labour market / Ewart Keep and Susan James. |
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