Quality of Work in the European Union

Concept, Data and Debates from a Transnational Perspective

• Author(s): Ana M. Guillén, Ana Marta Guillén, Svenn-Åge Dahl,
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Pages: 250
• ISBN_10: 9052015775
  ISBN_13: 9789052015774
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Labor / General , Business & Economics / Workplace Culture , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Political Science / World / European , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... This collective volume on quality of work in the European Union offers a comprehensive analysis on the current situation of the tensions between work and welfare in Europe, with a special emphasis on employment-related issues. The volume tackles a crucial aspect of employment policies, namely the strengthening of the quality dimension in the decisions taken by policy-makers to foster the performance of the labour market and to combine this orientation with the demands of workers for welfare, protection and a better reconciliation of work and family life. Quality of work has been on the agenda of policy-makers, practitioners and academics for the last few years, promoting a wide debate.
The book provides a contribution to this debate and takes into consideration a range of issues associated with the analysis of work quality from an innovative perspective. Relevant subtopics including a conceptual and political analysis of work quality, wage differentials and in-work poverty, gender issues or workers' direct and indirect representation in the firm and its relation with work quality are addressed.