Employment regimes and the quality of work / edited by Duncan Gallie.
"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, opportun...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Summary: | "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199230102 9780199230105 |