Demanding Work : The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy

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 substantial and rising proportion of jobs providing low wages and little security, or requiring unusually hard and stressful effort. In this unique and authoritative formal account of changing job quality, economist Francis Green highlights contrasting trends, using quantitative indicators drawn from

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Green, Francis
Publisher:	Princeton : Princeton University Press
Subject:	Arbeitszufriedenheit \| Job satisfaction \| Arbeitsbedingungen \| Working conditions \| Konsumgesellschaft \| Consumer society \| Industriesoziologie \| Sociology of work
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (252 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface: The Quest for "More and Better Jobs"; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; One: Assessing Job Quality in the Affluent Economy; The Paradox of Job Quality at the Millennium; Revealing a History of the Present; The Changing World and the Everyday Workplace; What Makes a Good Job?; An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Job Quality; From Quality of Work Life to "Quality in Work"?; How to Measure a Good Job: Surveys of the Quality of Work Life; Two: The Quality of Work Life in the "Knowledge Economy"; An Optimistic Outlook Theories of the Changing Demand for SkillThe Concept and Measurement of Skill; The Rising Level of Skill; Skills Polarization?; Skill, Technology, and Work Organization; The Skills Balance; Conclusion: A Mixed Verdict; Three: Late Twentieth-Century Trends in Work Effort; Working Hours, Work Effort, and the Quality of Work Life; The Concept and Measurement of Work Effort; Work Intensification in Britain; Work Intensification in Europe, Australia, and the United States; Any Objections?; Conclusion: A Summary of Effort Trends ; Four Accounting for Work Intensification The Paradox of Work Intensification in the Affluent EconomyThe Supply of Effort; "Amber Lights" and Effort-Biased Technological Change; Big Brother; The Changing Balance of Power; The Stick, the Carrot, and the Smooth Sell; Conclusion: The Role of Technological Change; Appendix: Multivariate Analyses; Five Workers' Discretion; The Importance of Influence; The Workers' Voice; Theory about How Discretion Is Changing; Trends in Discretion; Conclusion: An Incomplete Account; Six The Wages of Nations; Wages and the Fairness of Wages; The Growth of Average Wages; The Fairness of Wages Conclusion: Alright for SomeSeven Workers' Risk; Is This an Age of Uncertainty in the Workplace?; The Concept and Measurement of Job Insecurity; Workers' Perceptions of the Trend and Distribution of Job Risk; Objective Proxies for Risk; Conclusion: Risk and the Quality of Work Life; Eight Workers' Well-Being; A Question of Well-Being; A Digression on the Notion of Subjective Well-Being; A Picture of the Changing Well-Being of Workers in the Industrialized World; Well-Being and the Quality of Jobs; Conclusion: The Quality of Work Life Is Strained; Appendix: Multivariate Analyses Nine Summary and Implications for Policy on the Quality of Work LifeThe Rewards and Demands of Work in the Affluent Economy; Policy Implications; Data Set Appendix; Notes; References; Index of Names; General Index
ISBN:	978-0-691-13441-3 ; 978-1-4008-4943-7 ; 978-0-691-13441-3
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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