Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface: The Quest for "More and Better Jobs"
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• ONE
• Assessing Job Quality in the Affluent Economy
• The Paradox of Job Quality at the Millennium
• Revealing a History of the Present
• The Changing World and the Everyday Workplace
• What Makes a Good Job?
• An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Job Quality
• From Quality of Work Life to "Quality in Work"?
• How to Measure a Good Job: Surveys of the Quality of Work Life
• TWO
• The Quality of Work Life in the "Knowledge Economy"
• An Optimistic Outlook
• Theories of the Changing Demand for Skill
• The Concept and Measurement of Skill
• The Rising Level of Skill
• Skills Polarization
• Skill, Technology, and Work Organisation
• The Skills Balance
• Conclusion: A Mixed Verdict
• THREE
• Late Twentieth-Century Trends in Work Efford
• Working Hours, Work Effort, and the Quality of Work Life
• The Concept and Measurement of Work Effort
• Work Intensification in Britain
• Word Intensification in Europe, Australia and the United States
• Any Objections?
• Conclusion: A Summary of Effort Trends
• FOUR
• Accounting for Work Intensification
• The Paradox of Work Intensification in the Affluent Economy
• The Supply of Effort
• "Amber Lights" and Effort-Biased Technological Change
• Big Brother
• The Changing Balance of Power
• The Stick, the Carrot, and the Smooth Sell
• Conclusion: The Role of Technological Change
• Appendix: Multivariate Analyses
• FIVE
• Workers' Discretion
• The Importance of Influence
• The Workers Voice
• Theory about How Discretion is Changing
• Trends in Discretion
• Conclusion: An Incomplete Account
• SIX
• The Wages of Nations
• Wages and the Fairness of Wages
• The Growth of Average Wages
• The Fairness of Wages
• Conclusion: Alright for some
• SEVEN
• Workers' Risk
• Is This an Age of Uncertainty in the Workplace?
• The Concept and Measurement of Job Insecurity
• Worker's Perceptions of the Trend and Distribution of Job Risk
• Objective Proxies for Risk
• Conclusion: Risk and the Quality of Work Life
• EIGHT
• Workers' Well-Being
• A Question of Well-being
• A Digression on the Notion of Subjective Well-being
• A Picture of the Changing Well-Being of Workers in the Industrialised world
• Well-being and the Quality of Jobs
• Conclusion: The Quality of Work Life is Strained
• Appendix: Multivariate Analyses
• NINE
• Summary and Implications for Policy on the Quality of Work Life
• The Rewards and Demands of Work in the Affluent Economy
• Policy Implications
• Data Set Appendix
• Notes
• References
• Index to Names
• General Index