This working paper examines the impact on job quality of new digital technologies at work. It applies the multidimensional framework of the ETUI Job Quality Index to an analysis of the 27 EU Member States and data from the 2021 European Working Conditions Telephone Survey. The effects of...

Everyone needs a certain level of pressure in order to achieve things at work. But when we go beyond pressure, we start to experience stress which is negative, counter-productive and potentially disastrous. Yet stress, especially at work, is a subject that is often ignored because to recognise...

Contents -- Part I: Vignettes from the Modern Workplace -- 1. The Fissured Workplace and Its Consequences -- 2. Employment in a Pre-fissured World -- 3. Why Fissure? -- 4. Wage Determination in a Fissured Workplace -- Part II. The Forms and Consequences of the Fissured Workplace -- 5. The...

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction and Argument -- Part I. Informalization and the State -- 2. The Informalization of the Chinese Labor Market -- 3. Legislating Harmony: Labor Law Reform in Contemporary China -- 4. Social Policy and Public Opinion in an Age of Insecurity -- Part II....

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction--Jill M Jensen and Nelson Lichtenstein -- Part I. Beyond Europe: The ILO Encounters the Pacific World -- 1. A Sea of Difference: The ILO and the Search for Common...

Randy Hodson was one of contemporary sociology's central figures in the study of work, occupations, and inequality. This volume pays tribute to his important scholarly contributions. Chapters by other important scholars in these fields reflect and build on his research in work conditions, worker...