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    Unequal Britain at work / edited by Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and Francis Green.

    Contributor(s): Felstead, Alan, 1963- [editor.] | Gallie, Duncan [editor.] | Green, Francis [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198712848; 0198712847Subject(s): Discrimination in employment -- Great Britain | Quality of work life -- Great Britain | Equality -- Great Britain | Discrimination in employment | Equality | Quality of work life | Great Britain | Arbeitsbedingungen | Arbeitsqualität | Soziale Klasse | Geschlechterrolle | Soziale Ungleichheit | Großbritannien | IndustryDDC classification: 331.1/33/0941 LOC classification: HD4903.5.G7 | U54 2015
    Contents:
    The inequality of job quality / Francis Green, Alan Felstead, and Duncan Gallie -- Class inequality at work : trends to polarization? / Duncan Gallie -- Gender differences in job quality / Joanne Lindley -- The quality of part-time work / Tracey Warren and Clare Lyonette -- Temporary work and job quality / Hande Inanc -- Job quality and the self-employed : is it still better to work for yourself? / Ben Baumberg and Nigel Meager -- Unions and job quality / Alex Bryson and Francis Green -- Is the public sector pay advantage explained by differences in work quality? / David Blackaby ... [et al.] -- The employee experience of high-involvement management in Britain / Andy Charlwood -- Policies for intrinsic job quality / Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and Francis Green -- Technical appendix : the skills and employment survey series.
    Summary: "This book provides the first systematic assessment of trends in inequality in job quality in Britain in recent decades. It assesses the pattern of change drawing on the nationally representative Skills and Employment Surveys (SES) carried out at regular intervals from 1986 to 2012. These surveys collect data from workers themselves thereby providing a unique picture of trends in job quality. The book is concerned both with wage and non-wage inequalities (focusing, in particular on skills, training, task discretion, work intensity, organizational participation, and job security), and how these inequalities relate to class, gender, contract status, unionisation, and type of employer. Amid rising wage inequality there has nevertheless been some improvement in the relative job quality experienced by women, part-time employees, and temporary workers. Yet the book reveals the remarkable persistence of major inequalities in the working conditions of other categories of employee across periods of both economic boom and crisis. Beginning with a theoretical overview, before describing the main data series, this book examines how job quality differs between groups and across time."--Publisher's website.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index.

    The inequality of job quality / Francis Green, Alan Felstead, and Duncan Gallie -- Class inequality at work : trends to polarization? / Duncan Gallie -- Gender differences in job quality / Joanne Lindley -- The quality of part-time work / Tracey Warren and Clare Lyonette -- Temporary work and job quality / Hande Inanc -- Job quality and the self-employed : is it still better to work for yourself? / Ben Baumberg and Nigel Meager -- Unions and job quality / Alex Bryson and Francis Green -- Is the public sector pay advantage explained by differences in work quality? / David Blackaby ... [et al.] -- The employee experience of high-involvement management in Britain / Andy Charlwood -- Policies for intrinsic job quality / Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and Francis Green -- Technical appendix : the skills and employment survey series.

    "This book provides the first systematic assessment of trends in inequality in job quality in Britain in recent decades. It assesses the pattern of change drawing on the nationally representative Skills and Employment Surveys (SES) carried out at regular intervals from 1986 to 2012. These surveys collect data from workers themselves thereby providing a unique picture of trends in job quality. The book is concerned both with wage and non-wage inequalities (focusing, in particular on skills, training, task discretion, work intensity, organizational participation, and job security), and how these inequalities relate to class, gender, contract status, unionisation, and type of employer. Amid rising wage inequality there has nevertheless been some improvement in the relative job quality experienced by women, part-time employees, and temporary workers. Yet the book reveals the remarkable persistence of major inequalities in the working conditions of other categories of employee across periods of both economic boom and crisis. Beginning with a theoretical overview, before describing the main data series, this book examines how job quality differs between groups and across time."--Publisher's website.

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