Contributors to this volume - Duncan Gallie, Nuffield College, Oxford Iain Begg, European Institute, LSE Rik van Berkel, Utrecht University, Netherlands Cathal O'Donoghue, National University of Ireland, Galway Torild Hammer, NOVA, Norwegian Social Research, Oslo Herwig Immervoll, University of...

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,...

The single most important change in the British labour market over the last two decades has been the re-emergence of mass unemployment. This study focuses on six areas: Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy, Rochdale, Coventry, Northampton, and Swindon, and investigates the effect of being unemployed on...

The quality of working life has been central to the sociological agenda for several decades, and has also been increasingly salient as a policy issue, and for companies. This book breaks new ground in the study of the quality of work by providing the first rigorous comparative assessment of the...