Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Warhurst, Chris
• Contents: Job quality: scenarios, analysis and interventions / Françoise Carré [and others] -- Identifying bad jobs across Europe / José-Ignacio Antón, Enrique Fernández-Macías and Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo -- Job quality in the US: the myths that block action / Paul Osterman -- Good jobs, bad jobs and the Australian experience / Barbara Pocock and Natalie Skinner -- A framework for international comparative analysis of the determinants of low-wage job quality / Françoise Carré and Chris Tilly -- At the altar of shareholder value?: corporate governance and conditions for better jobs in Swedish manufacturing / Tony Huzzard -- Making bad jobs better: the case of frontline health care workers / Janette S. Dill, Jennifer Craft Morgan and Arne L. Kalleberg -- When good jobs go bad: the declining quality of auto work in the global economy / Jeffrey S. Rothstein -- Frontline managers matter: labour flexibility practices and sustained employment in US retail jobs / Susan J. Lambert and Julia R. Henly -- Good or bad jobs?: contrasting workers' expectations and jobs in Mexican call centres / José Luis Álvarez Galván -- Thirty years of hospital cleaning in England and Scotland: an opportunity for "better" jobs? / Anne Munro -- Unpacking the logics of labour standards enforcement: an alternative approach / Janice Fine and Jennifer Gordon -- Under the radar: tracking the violation of labour standards in low-wage industries in the US / Nik Theodore [and others] -- Employment standards "modernization" in Canada / Mark P. Thomas -- Are skills the answer to bad jobs?: incentives to learn at the bottom end of the labour market / Ewart Keep and Susan James.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.36; Organizational Behavior; Quality of work life; Work environment; Labor laws and legislation; Labor laws and legislation; Quality of work life; Work environment; Arbeitsqualität; Arbeitszufriedenheit; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Workplace Culture; Sociology/General; Working patterns & practices; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0230370233; 9780230370234
• Related ISBNs: 9780230336919; 0230336914
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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