
Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work
Duncan Gallie(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. September 2007
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-923010-5 (ISBN)
Description
The book makes a major new contribution to the sociology of employment by comparing the quality of working life in European societies with very different institutional systems - France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain and Sweden. It focuses in particular on skills and skill development, opportunities for training, the scope for initiative in work, the difficulty of combining work and family life and the security of employment. Drawing on a range of nationally representative surveys, it reveals striking differences in the quality of work in different European countries. It also provides for the first time rigorous comparative evidence on the experiences of different types of employee and an assessment of whether there has been a trend over time to greater polarization between a core workforce of relatively privileged employees and a peripheral workforce suffering from cumulative disadvantage. It explores the relevance of three influential theoretical perspectives, focussing respectively on the common dynamics of capitalist societies, differences in production regimes between capitalist societies and differences in the institutional systems of employment regulation.
It argues that it is the third of these - an 'employment regime' perspective - that provides the most convincing account of the factors that affect the quality of work in capitalist societies. The findings underline the importance of differences in national policies for people's experiences of work and point to the need for a renewal at European level of initiatives for improving the quality of work.
It argues that it is the third of these - an 'employment regime' perspective - that provides the most convincing account of the factors that affect the quality of work in capitalist societies. The findings underline the importance of differences in national policies for people's experiences of work and point to the need for a renewal at European level of initiatives for improving the quality of work.
Reviews / Votes
This is an impressive study which generates many new ideas and angles for the analysis of policies in relation to the quality of work Journal of European Social Policy 2009 Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work represents a major breakthrough as it provides a welcomeme link between research on job quality and research on comparative economic organization. A pioneering contribution to our understanding of job quality in general and across Europe in particular. Patrick McGovern, Work and OccupationsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous tables
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
604 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-923010-5 (9780199230105)
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Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield CollegeProfessor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Content
1. Production Regimes, Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work; 2. Skills and Wages in European Labour Markets: Structure and Change; 3. Job-Related Training in Europe: Do Institutions Matter?; 4. Task Discretion and Job Quality; 5. Work and Family in Conflict? The Impact of Work Demands on Family Life; 6. Job Insecurity; 7. The Quality of Work Life in Comparative Perspective; References; Index