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 (to download)
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
