Job Quality: Scenarios, Analysis and Interventions

Carré, Françoise; Findlay, Patricia; Tilly, Chris; Warhurst, Chris

doi:10.1007/978-0-230-37023-4_1

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“…The first and most straightforward is to consider which jobs, in which sectors, industries, and regions could and should be prioritized for intervention (Carre et al, 2012). In focusing on where bad jobs are to be found, this approach is largely problem driven and remedial in orientation.…”

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Opportunity Knocks? The Possibilities and Levers for Improving Job Quality

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This article focuses on demands and interventions to improve or maintain job quality. There is need for better understanding of what can be done, by whom and with what impacts. The article provides a framework for reflection focused on interventions within and outwith the workplace. Drawing on secondary data, it outlines the renewed policy and academic interest in job quality, examines the multi-level reasons for intervention, the factors that shape this intervention and evaluates the loci of intervention. On the basis of the evidence to date, it argues that there is scope for intervention and that intervention can be effective.

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Opportunity Knocks? The Possibilities and Levers for Improving Job Quality

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“…Bolton, 2007: 8). Sociologists thus tend to view changes in job quality as reflecting the outcomes of long-term structural features of the labour market (Kalleberg, 2016: 119), for example cost cutting as a competitive strategy, job design that limits autonomy and a neo-liberal policy environment (see Carré et al, 2012). Vital questions concern whether high job quality is inherently restricted to certain contexts and occupations (Grote and Guest, 2017: 158) and if the acuteness of such pressures precludes others.…”

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‘A Minute’s a Life-Time in Fast-Food!’: Managerial Job Quality in the Quick Service Restaurant Sector

Butler

Hammer

2018

Work, Employment and Society

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The fast-food sector remains significantly under researched relative to its size and importance. Drawing on qualitative data this article explores the nature of managerial work in a market leading organisation. The research speaks to important contemporary debates visa -vis managerial job quality in routinised service sector work and the compatibility of such jobs with key quality of working life criteria (e.g. opportunities for skills development, decision latitude, voice and meaning). The theoretical contribution of the article lies in the rigor of the analytical lens and exploration of how objective QWL criteria are coloured by subjective expectations and social processes to produce nuanced and unanticipated outcomes e.g. accounts of rewarding, interesting and meaningful work notwithstanding severe structural constraints and bureaucratic rigidities.

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“…The consequences of increased precarious work have been examined from a number of perspectives. These include the impact on workers particularly marginalised labour market groups (Campbell and Price, 2016;Howcroft and Rubery, 2018); the extent to which the state and institutional frameworks facilitate such work (Carré et al, 2012;Gautié et al, 2010;Hyman, 2008;O'Sullivan et al, 2017) and the implications for the erosion of individuals' rights and citizenship (Standing, 2014;Ryan et al, 2019a;Turner, 2016). Concomitantly there has been much debate around how best to approach the regulation of precarious work to improve employment and social protection for all (Adams and Deakin, 2014;Grimshaw et al, 2016;Rubery, 2015).…”

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“…Yet the core of an LME is efficiency of the market facilitated in the labour market by the absence of regulations such as minimum wages, employment laws and trade unions that are seen to inhibit the flexible use of labour (Hyman, 2008). However, the deregulation of labour markets as well as other state policies such as privatisation and outsourcing has been a driver of precarious jobs (Carré et al, 2012;Kalleberg, 2012;Prosser, 2016). These policies adopted in LMEs in pursuit of enhanced economic performance are a result of the increased interdependence of economic activities in the global economy and, in the case of EU countries, Europeanisation.…”

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The Same but Different: Regulating Zero Hours Work in Two Liberal Market Economies

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MacMahon

O’Sullivan

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The Irish Journal of Management

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The rise in zero hours contracts in liberal market economies (LMEs) has recently received much attention with calls for regulation to protect workers. LMEs typically adopt flexible labour market policies that are less regulated than coordinated market economies (CMEs) as a competitive advantage. In this paper we examine nuanced differences in the nature and regulation of zero hours work in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland. With an increased diffusion of zero hours work in both countries, we examine the different responses taken by these similar LMEs to this contemporary employment issue. We examine whether, as expected in an LME context, there is weak regulation in both countries and the factors influencing this. We find subtle but important differences between regulations of zero hours contracts. We conclude by discussing the possible implications of the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) (Brexit) for the regulation of precarious work.

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Job Quality: Scenarios, Analysis and Interventions

Cited by 25 publications

References 37 publications

Opportunity Knocks? The Possibilities and Levers for Improving Job Quality

Opportunity Knocks? The Possibilities and Levers for Improving Job Quality

‘A Minute’s a Life-Time in Fast-Food!’: Managerial Job Quality in the Quick Service Restaurant Sector

The Same but Different: Regulating Zero Hours Work in Two Liberal Market Economies

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