Quality of Work in the European Union Kartoniert (TB)

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.