Is New Work Good Work?

Autor/in	Westwood, Andy
Titel	Is New Work Good Work?
Quelle	(2002), (38 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Adult Literacy; Compensation (Remuneration); Demand Occupations; Economic Impact; Employee Attitudes; Employees; Employment Opportunities; Employment Patterns; Foreign Countries; Job Satisfaction; Job Skills; Job Training; Labor Conditions; Labor Market; Poverty Areas; Public Opinion; Quality of Working Life; Retailing; Unskilled Occupations; Work Environment; United Kingdom (Great Britain) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abfindung; Kompensation; Lohnausgleich; Lehrerreserve; Ökonomische Determinanten; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Ausland; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Produktive Fertigkeit; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Arbeitsbedingungen; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Öffentliche Meinung; Arbeitsqualität; Warenwirtschaft; Arbeitsmilieu
Abstract	Some new work is good work. Quality is ultimately defined by the individual. However, these perceptions are inevitably colored by the circumstances in which people find themselves, by the time, place, and wide range of motivations for having to do a particular job in the first place. One person's quality may be another's purgatory and vice versa. Four important changes in Great Britain's labor market are a major decline in the number of people in manual employment; a rise in skilled employment of people performing managerial, professional, and technical jobs; a rise in mixed but essentially low formal skilled employment performed by "personal and protective" workers; and the continued increase of women in the labor force. The point may be not that newer work is bad or worse because it has replaced older, more traditional industrial and manual jobs but that women do these emerging jobs. Retail has been one of the most maligned types of work, but popular perceptions have been misplaced. ASDA/Walmart has been voted the best place to work in Britain. Some reasons are its approach to its employees or colleagues and the vast range of benefits on offer to them. Retailers like ASDA have been at the forefront of business in restoring job opportunities to parts of Britain that need them the most. Britain needs more good jobs because Britains need to perform better as an entire labor market. (Contains 47 references.) (YLB)
Anmerkungen	The Work Foundation, Peter Runge House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DG, U.K. (10 British pounds). Tel: 0870 165 6700; Web site: http://www.theworkfoundation.com. For full text: http://www.theworkfoundation.com/servlet/IndSocProduct?id=4930000 00.
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