Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Production regimes, employment regimes, and the quality of work / Duncan Gallie -- Skills and wages in European labour markets : structure and change / Michael Tåhlin -- Job-related training in Europe : do institutions matter? / Martina Dieckhoff, Jean-Marie Jungblut, and Philip J. O'Connell -- Task discretion and job quality / Duncan Gallie -- Work and family in conflict? : the impact of work demands on family life / Stefani Scherer and Nadia Steiber -- Job insecurity / Serge Paugam and Ying Zhou -- The quality of work life in comparative perspective / Duncan Gallie -- Appendix : Data source.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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."--Jacket.