Gebundenes Buch

Job Quality in an Era of Flexibility

Experiences in a European Context

Herausgeber: Isidorsson, Tommy; Kubisa, Julia

Beschreibung

As employment practices such as zero-hours contracts, casualization of the workforce and the use of temporary and agency labour become prevalent, this book explores the pressures for workforce flexibility and how this pressure shapes workers' experiences of job quality.

Autor

Tommy Isidorsson is Associate Professor, Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Member and Supervisor at ChangingEmployment Marie Curie ITN. His main interest has been how firms and organisations adapt to changes in demand, i.e. the different strategies utilised for handling changes in production volume including working-time flexibility, functional flexibility and numerical flexibility. His interest in numerical flexibility includes several studies on agency workers focusing on mechanisms that influence the development of these strategies for flexibility and their consequences on a societal level, workplace level and individual level. He is the author of many publications on temporary agency workers. Julia Kubisa, Marie Curie Experienced Researcher, Post-doc at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland. For her PhD she researched women's activation in Polish trade unions, focusing on the position of nurses and midwives in the Polish healthcare system and their patterns of protest, the impact of healthcare system reform on working conditions and trade unions' activities. Her research interests are in the field of the sociology of work, including the gendered division of labour, labour relations in transforming economies and new patterns of job quality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781138561595
• ISBN-10: 1138561592
• Artikelnr.: 52961311