Demanding work : the paradox of job quality in the affluent economy / Francis Green.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, (c)2006.Description: 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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  • HD6955 .D463 2006
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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