Employment regimes and the quality of work. Reprinted.

Autor/inn/en	Tahlin, Michael; Scherer, Stefanie; Steiber, Nadia; Dieckhoff, Martina; Jungblut, Jean-Marie; O'Connell, Philip J.; Paugam, Serge; Zhou, Ying
Sonst. Personen	Gallie, Duncan (Hrsg.)
Titel	Employment regimes and the quality of work. Reprinted. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Beschäftigungsregimes und die Qualität der Arbeit.
Quelle	Oxford: Oxford University Press (2010), 277 S.Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-19-956603-7
Schlagwörter	Familie; Kapitalismus; Lohn; Berufsbildung; Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitsplatzsicherheit; Arbeitsqualität; Beruf; Beschäftigungssystem; Qualifikation; Internationaler Vergleich; Europäische Union; Deutschland; Frankreich; Großbritannien; Schweden; Spanien
Abstract	"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, opportunities for training, the scope for initiative in work, the difficulty of combining work and family life, and the security of employment. Drawing on a range of nationally representative surveys, it reveals striking differences in the quality of work in different European countries. It also provides for the first time rigorous comparative evidence on the experiences of different types of employee and an assessment of whether there has been a trend over time to greater polarization between a core workforce of relatively privileged employees and a peripheral workforce suffering from cumulative disadvantage. It explores the relevance of three influential theoretical perspectives, focussing respectively on the common dynamics of capitalist societies, differences in production regimes between capitalist societies, and differences in the institutional systems of employment regulation. It argues that it is the third of these - an 'employment regime' perspective - that provides the most convincing account of the factors that affect the quality of work in capitalist societies. The findings underline the importance of differences in national policies for people's experiences of work and point to the need for a renewal at European level of initiatives for improving the quality of work." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku); Contents: Duncan Gallie: Production regimes, employment regimes, and the quality of work (1-33); Michael Tahlin: Skills and wages in European labour markets - strukture and change (35-76); Martina Dieckhoff, Jean-Marie Jungblut, Philip J. O'Connell: Job-related training in Europe - do institutions matter? (77-103); Duncan Gallie: Task discretion and job-quality (105-136); Stefani Scherer, Nadia Steiber: Work and family in conflict? The impact of work demands on family life (137-178); Serge Paugam, Ying Zhou: Job insecurity (179-204); Duncan Gallie: The quality of work life in comparative perspective (205-232).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/2