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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Duncan Gallie (Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780199566037ISBN 10: 0199566038 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 24 September 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Duncan Gallie: Production Regimes, Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work 2: Michael Tahlin: Skills and Wages in European Labour Markets: Structure and Change 3: Martine Dieckhoff, Jean-Marie Jungblut and Philip J. O'Connell: Job-Related Training in Europe: Do Institutions Matter? 4: Duncan Gallie: Task Discretion and Job Quality 5: Stefani Scherer and Nadia Steiber: Work and Family in Conflict? The Impact of Work Demands on Family Life 6: Serge Paugam and Ying Zhou: Job Insecurity 7: Duncan Gallie: The Quality of Work Life in Comparative Perspective References IndexReviews`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 Occupations `This book provides a rigorous and insightful comparative analysis of the quality of work in five European countries including France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain and Sweden...this is a useful book with up-to-date data and innovative empirical studies on many of the pressing issues for not only Europe but for many developed countries...overall, this book is a great read, its format is easy to read and the information easily digestible.' Timothy Bartram, Management Research News, Vol. 31 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 Author InformationDuncan Gallie is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. His research has focussed on the changing experience of work and on the social consequences of unemployment. He was national coordinator of the ESRC's Social Change and Economic Life Initiative and has been European coordinator of several EU cross-national research programmes. He is Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy and was a member of the EU's Advisory Group for the Social Sciences and Humanities for the Sixth Framework Programme. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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