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Subject(s)

• Employability [Browse]
• Quality of life [Browse]

Editor

• Warhurst, Christopher [Browse]
• Mathieu, Chris [Browse]
• Dwyer, Rachel E. [Browse]

Series

• Oxford Academic [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks online

Summary note

This Handbook offers an interdisciplinary and international benchmark text for anyone wanting to understand job quality. Job quality matters and has long done so. Debate about the future of work today centres on the impact of the new digital technologies, compounding existing concerns about the restructuring of employment and, importantly, proliferation of poor-quality jobs, often within the context of neo-liberal hegemony since the 1980s and the consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of the 2000s. Whilst job quality is offered as a solution to a range of challenges, it needs to be understood in all its complexity in terms of what it affects and what affects it. This Handbook draws together: first, an explicit focus on job quality as a factor in itself and as producing instrumental effects on other processes and outcomes -- second, a catalogue of the diverse range of multiple contributions and applications -- third, the complexity and multiple interpretations of job quality as a concept -- and fourth avenues for job quality improvement. Each chapter provides distinct viewpoints on why job quality matters. As the volume attests, there are a range of ways in which job quality is relevant to an equally broad range of social, economic and political concerns.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Contents: List of Figures - List of Tables - List of Contributors - Job Quality Matters - Chris Warhurst, Chris Mathieu and Rachel E. Dwyer - Part IThe Foundations of Job Quality - 1. The Quality of Working Life - David Guest - 2. The Swedish Contribution to Job Quality - Ian Hampson and Åke Sandberg - 3. Job Quality: A Family Affair? - Chris Warhurst, Sally Wright and Chris Mathieu - Part IIUnderstanding Job Quality - 4. Understanding Differences and Trends in Job Quality: Perspectives from Cross-National Research - Sven Hauff and Stefan Kirchner - 5. Understanding Job Quality Using Qualitative Research - Angela Knox and Sally Wright - 6. Quantitative Approaches to Assess Job Quality - Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Enrique Fernández-Macías and José-Ignacio Antón - 7. Job Quality as the Realization of Democratic Ideals - John Godard - Part IIIKey Issues in Job Quality - 8. Job Polarization: Its History, an Intuitive Framework and Some Empirical Evidence - Maarten Goos, Emilie Rademakers, Anna Salomons and Marieke Vandeweyer - 9. Geographies of Job Quality - Sally Weller, Tom Barnes and Nicholas Kimberley - 10. The Cornerstone of Job Quality: Occupational Safety and Health - Maria Albin, Chris Mathieu, Esa-Pekka Takala and Töres Theorell - 11. Innovation and Job Quality - Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael Grande and Enrique Fernández-Macías - 12. Immigration and Job Quality - Amada Armenta and Shannon Gleeson - 13. Job Quality for Service and Care Occupations: A Feminist Perspective - Orly Benjamin - 14. Inequality in Job Quality: Class, Gender and Contract Type - Duncan Gallie - Part IVRegional Developments in Job Quality - 15. Job Quality in the United States and Canada - Arne L. Kalleberg, Sylvia Fuller and Ashley Pullman - 16. The Great Recession and Job Quality Trends in Europe - Christine Erhel, Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière, Janine Leschke and Andrew Watt - 17. Job Quality in Emerging Economies through the Lens of the OECD Job Quality Framework - Sandrine Cazes, Paolo Falco and Bálint Menyhért - Part VSectoral Developments in Job Quality - 18. Job Quality in High-Touch Services - Mary Gatta - 19. The Changing Quality of Office Work - Chris Baldry - 20. The Steady but Uneven Decline in Manufacturing Job Quality - Jeffrey S. Rothstein - 21. Neoliberalism's Impact on Public-Sector Job Quality: The US and Germany Compared - Carsten Sauer, Peter Valet, Vincent J. Roscigno and George Wilson - 22. Job Quality and the Small Firm - Paul Edwards and Monder Ram - Part VIImproving Job Quality - 23. Human Resource Management and Job Quality - Peter Boxall and John Purcell - 24. Using Efficiency, Equity and Voice for Defining Job Quality, and Legal Regulation for Achieving It - Stephen F. Befort, Silvia Borelli and John W. Budd - 25. Trade Unions and Job Quality - Melanie Simms - Index.

Other title(s)

Handbook of job quality

ISBN

9780191814075 (electronic book)

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