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Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?: Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century


Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?: Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century

Paperback by Warhurst, Chris (University of Warwick, Coventry); Carré, Françoise; Findlay, Patricia; Tilly, Chris

Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?: Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century

£64.99

ISBN:
9780230336919
Publication Date:
21 Feb 2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Red Globe Press
Pages:
232 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 7 - 12 May 2024
Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?: Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century

Description

An edited book in the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment Series that is associated with the annual International Labour Process Conference, it focuses on job quality: debates, developments, issues and trends; workplace practice and interventions. Written by world-leading academics, it contains cutting-edge research.

Contents

Introduction 'Job Quality: Issues and Developments'; P.Findlay, C.Warhurst, C.Tilly & F.Carre 'Job Quality Trajectories Across Europe'; F.Green 'Job Quality in the US'; P.Osterman 'Job Quality in Australia'; B.Pocock & N.Skinner 'Economic Policy and Job Quality in the Great Recession'; E.Appelbaum 'A Framework for International Comparative Analysis of the Determinants of Job Quality'; F.Carre & C.Tilly 'Corporate Governance and Work Organisation - Creating the Conditions for Better Jobs'; T.Huzzard 'Making Bad Jobs Better: the Case of Frontline Healthcare Workers'; J.S.Dill, J.Craft Morgan & A.L.Kalleberg 'When Good Jobs Go Bad: the Declining Quality of Auto Work in the Global Economy; J.S.Rothstein 'Labour Flexibility and Precarious Employment in Hourly Retail Jobs in the US: How Frontline Managers Matter; S.Lambert & J.Henly 'Strengthening Labour Standards Enforcement through Partnerships with Worker Organisations'; J.Fine & J.Gordon 'Under the Radar: Workplace Violations in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York'; R.Milkman, A.Bernhardt, N.Theodore, D.Hechathorn, M.Auer, J.DeFilippis, A.Luz Gonzalez, V.Narro, J.Perelshteyn, D.Polson & M.Spiller 'Regulated Flexibility: Employment Standards Legislation and the not so Inevitable Persistence of Bad Jobs'; M.Thomas 'Good or bad jobs? Contrasting workers' expectations and jobs in Mexican call centres'; J.L. Álvarez Galván 'Thirty Years of Hospital Cleaning in England and Scotland - An Opportunity for Better Jobs'; A.Munro 'Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? Incentives to Learn at the Bottom End of the Labour Market'; S.James & E.Keep.

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