Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work
Gallie, Duncan Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923010-5




7 The Quality of Work Life in Comparative Perspective
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230105.003.0007

Duncan Galie
Abstract: This chapter presents a summary of the dimensions of work quality discussed in the preceding chapters. These include skill levels and skill trends, employer training, task discretion, work-family balance, and job insecurity. It then considers their implications for the contrasting arguments about the determinants of work quality discussed in Chapter 1.

Keywords: work quality, skill level, skill trends, employer training, work-family balance, job insecurity, task discretion,

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Full Book Contents
1 Production Regimes, Employment Regimes, and the Quality of Work
2 Skills and Wages in European Labour Markets: Structure and Change
3 Job-Related Training in Europe: Do Institutions Matter?
4 Task Discretion and Job Quality
5 Work and Family in Conflict? The Impact of Work Demands on Family Life
6 Job Insecurity
7 The Quality of Work Life in Comparative Perspective
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
 
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