Research Catalog

Title

Are bad jobs inevitable? : trends, determinants and responses to job quality in the twenty-first century / edited by Chris Warhurst ... [et al.].

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Warhurst, Christopher.

Description

xvi, 262 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical perspectives on work and employment

Uniform Title

Critical perspectives on work and employment.

Alternative Title

Trends, determinants and responses to job quality in the twenty-first century

Subject

• Quality of work life
• Work environment
• Labor laws and legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JBE 12-679

ISBN

• 9780230336919 (pbk.)
• 0230336914 (pbk.)

OCLC

758982862

Title

Are bad jobs inevitable? : trends, determinants and responses to job quality in the twenty-first century / edited by Chris Warhurst ... [et al.].

Imprint

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.

Series

Critical perspectives on work and employment

Critical perspectives on work and employment.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Warhurst, Christopher.

Research Call Number

JBE 12-679