The Oxford Handbook of Job Quality

by Warhurst, Chris; Mathieu, Chris; Dwyer, Rachel E.

• ISBN13: 9780198749790
• ISBN10: 0198749791
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-10-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Chris Warhurst, Professor and Director of the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick,Chris Mathieu, Docent in the Sociology of Work and Organisation, Lund University,Rachel E. Dwyer, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Population Research, Ohio State
University

Chris Warhurst is Professor and Director of the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick in the UK, a Trustee of the Tavistock Institute in London, and a Research Associate of SKOPE at Oxford University.

Chris Mathieu is Docent in the Sociology of Work and Organisation at the Department of Sociology, Lund University.

Rachel E. Dwyer PhD is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Population Research at The Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Job Quality Matters, Chris Warhurst, Chris Mathieu, and Rachel E. Dwyer
Section I: The Foundations of Job Quality
1. The Quality of Working Life, David Guest
2. The Swedish Contribution to Job Quality, Ian Hampson and Åke Sandberg
3. Job Quality: A Family Affair?, Chris Warhurst, Sally Wright, and Chris Mathieu
Section II: Understanding Job quality
4. Understanding Differences and Trends in Job Quality: Perspectives from Cross-National Research, Sven Hauff and Stefan Kirchner
5. Understanding Job Quality Using Qualitative Research, Angela Knox and Sally Wright
6. Quantitative Approaches to Assessing Jobs, Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Enrique Fernández-Macías, and José-Ignacio Antón
7. Institutions, Societies, and the Quality of Employment, John Godard
Section III: Key Issues in Job Quality
8. Job Polarization: Its History, an Intuitive Framework, and Some Empirical Evidence, Maarten Goos, Emilie Rademakers, Anna Salomons, and Marieke Vandeweyer
9. Geographies of Job Quality, Sally Weller, Tom Barnes, and Nicholas Kimberley
10. The Cornerstone of Job Quality: Occupational Safety and Health, Maria Albin, Chris Mathieu, Esa-Pekka Takala, and Töres Theorell
11. Innovation and Job Quality, Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael Grande, and Enrique Fernández-Macías
12. Immigration and Job Quality, Amada Armenta and Shannon Gleeson
13. Inequality in Job Quality: Class, Gender, and Contract Type, Duncan Gallie
Section IV: Regional Developments in Job Quality
14. Job Quality in the United States and Canada, Arne L. Kalleberg, Sylvia Fuller, and Ashley Pullman
15. The Great Recession and Job Quality Trends in Europe, Christine Erhel, Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière, Janine Leschke, and Andrew Watt
16. Job Quality in Emerging Economies through the Lens of the OECD Job Quality Framework, Sandrine Cazes, Paolo Falco, and Balint Menyhért
Section V: Sectoral Developments in Job Quality
17. Job Quality in High Touch Services, Mary Gatta
18. The Steady but Uneven Decline in Manufacturing Job Quality, Jeffrey S. Rothstein
19. Neoliberalism's Impact on Public Sector Job Quality: The US and Germany Compared, Carsten Sauer, Peter Valet, Vincent J. Roscigno, and George Wilson
20. Job Quality for Service and Care Occupations: A Feminist Perspective, Orly Benjamin
21. The Changing Quality of Office Work, Chris Baldry
22. Job quality and the Small Firm, Paul Edwards and Monder Ram
Section VI: Improving job quality
23. Human Resource Management and Job Quality, Peter Boxall and John Purcell
24. Using Efficiency, Equity, and Voice for Defining Job Quality, and Legal Regulation for Achieving It, Stephen F. Befort, Silvia Borelli, and John W. Budd
25. Trade Unions and Job quality, Mel Simms