Overview

This book investigates hard work and new and expanding jobs in Europe. The interrelationship between the labour market and welfare regimes, and quality of work and life is played out at many levels: the institutional; the organizational level of the company and its customers or clients; and the level of everyday life at the workplace and beyond it.

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Author:   U. Holtgrewe ,  M. Ramioul ,  V. Kirov
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   5.072kg
ISBN:  

9781137461063

ISBN 10:   1137461063
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   08 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. New And Growing But Not Necessarily Better: Expanding Jobs In Europe. Introduction; Ursula Holtgrewe, Vassil Kirov, Monique Ramioul 2. A Hard Job Is Good To Find: Comparability, Contextuality And Stakeholder Involvement In European Job Quality Research; Ursula Holtgrewe, Ekaterina Markova, Johan E. Ravn PART I. EMPLOYMENT GROWTH, JOB QUALITY AND WELL-BEING 3. Using Business Functions To Identify New And Growing Jobs; Sem Vandekerckhove, Monique Ramioul 4. Examining The Quality Of Jobs Amongst Vulnerable Groups Of Workers In Europe; Charlotte Mcclelland, David Holman 5. Subjective Well-Being At The Workplace; Ambra Poggi, Claudia Villosio 6. Material Well-Being And Job Quality: Some Descriptive Statistics; Ambra Poggi, Claudia Villosio, Giulia Bizzotto PART II. REGULATING QUALITY OF WORK 7. Institutional Anchors For Job Quality - The Case Of Industrial Relations; Steffen Lehndorff 8. Can Social Partners Improve The Quality Of Work In Low-Wage Work In Europe?; Vassil Kirov 9. The (In)Visible Third Party: De- And Re-Regulation Of Working Conditions Through Public Procurement; Karen Jaehrling, Hanne O. Finnestrand, Vassil Kirov, Hans Torvatn PART III. SEGMENTATION AND VULNERABILITY 10. Low-Paid But Satisfied? How Immigrant And Ethnic Minority Workers In Low-Wage Jobs Make Sense Of Their Wages; Ekaterina L. Markova, Karin Sardadvar, Ambra Poggi, Claudia Villosio 11. Working For Life: Workers' Career Aspirations And Their Experiences Of Past Career Trajectories And Present Working Conditions; Pernille Hohnen, Jolanta Kuznecovien?, Charlotte Mcclelland, David Holman 12. Out Of Sight: Dimensions Of Working Time In Gendered Occupations; Albert Recio, Sara Moreno Colom, Alejandro Godino 13. Gender-Typing Of Low-Wage Work. A Comparative Analysis Of Commercial Cleaning In Austria, Domiciliary Elderly Care In Germany And The Waste Sector In Bulgaria; Karin Sardadvar, Angelika Kümmerling, Darina Peycheva PART IV. AUTONOMY AND SOCIAL TIES 14. Autonomy In Unlikely Places: Preconditions In Low Skilled Jobs; Ole H. Sørensen, Monique Ramioul, Rasa Naujanien? 15. Reciprocity, Allegiance And The Market: Social Integration Still At Work; Ursula Holtgrewe, Pernille Hohnen

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This volume examines the configuration and factors that shape 'hard work' on the European level and the national sectors. ... In addition, this work explores the connections between the structural and the objective conditions of 'hard work', its subjective meaning and its impact on workers' life and sense of belonging. ... the reading of this book is recommended for those who are interested in labor and its conditions as a complex social issue. (Damian R. Molgaray, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 11, 2016)

“This volume examines the configuration and factors that shape ‘hard work’ on the European level and the national sectors. … In addition, this work explores the connections between the structural and the objective conditions of ‘hard work’, its subjective meaning and its impact on workers’ life and sense of belonging. … the reading of this book is recommended for those who are interested in labor and its conditions as a complex social issue.” (Damian R. Molgaray, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 11, 2016)

Author Information

Ursula Holtgrewe is Senior Researcher and member of the management team at Forschungs und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt, Austria, and teaches sociology at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. She was co-ordinator of the Walqing project, and her research interests include service work and organization, social theory, work and organization studies, new technology, and gender. Vassil Kirov is Associate Professor in the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (ISSK-BAS) and Associate Researcher at the Centre Pierre Naville, University of Evry and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). His research interests include the sociology of enterprise, work and organisation, industrial relations and Europeanisation. Vassil has been a researcher in large EU-funded research projects (SMALL, WORKS, WALQING) and has worked as an external expert for the European Commission, the International Labour Organisation, the European Foundation for Working and Living Conditions, etc. He has published several books and articles in international scientific journals. Monique Ramioul is the Director of the Work and Organisation Research Group at the Research Institute for Work and Society, HIVA, University of Leuven, Belgium. She is a sociologist and her main research interests include organization restructuring, changes in work, skills and qualifications, and quality of work. Her research experiences include the management and co-ordination of large-scale European projects, the management of a research team, and research on work and organization in both qualitative (case studies) and quantitative (surveys) research studies.

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