Demanding Work : The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy /
In the last quarter century a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of the industrialised world. Economist Francis Green highlights contrasting trends, using quantitative indicators drawn from a series of social surveys and from administrative data.
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2006]
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Table des matières:
- Assessing job quality in the affluent economy
- The quality of work life in the "knowledge economy"
- Late twentieth-century trends in work effort
- Accounting for work intensification
- Workers' discretion
- The wages of nations
- Workers' risk
- Workers' well-being
- Summary and implications for policy on the quality of work life.


