Demanding Work : : The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy / / Francis Green.
Since the early 1980s, a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of the industrialized world. Many workers are doing more skilled and fulfilling jobs, and getting paid more for their trouble. Yet it is often alleged that the quality of work life has deteriorated, with a subst...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 20 line illus. 36 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: The Quest for "More and Better Jobs"
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- One. Assessing Job Quality in the Affluent Economy
- Two. The Quality of Work Life in the "Knowledge Economy"
- Three. Late Twentieth-Century Trends in Work Effort
- Four. Accounting for Work Intensification
- Five. The Workers' Discretion
- Six. The Wages of Nations
- Seven. Workers' Risk
- Eight. Workers' Well-Being
- Nine. Summary and Implications for Policy on the Quality of Work Life
- Data Set Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index of Names
- General Index