Hard at Work
Job Quality, Wellbeing, and the Global Economy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 March 2026
- ISBN 9780197692516
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 242x165x27 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Hard at Work presents a new, up-to-date account of job quality to understand the immense variety and range of jobs, as well as the evolution of these jobs in recent years. Drawing on various fields and new data sources, Francis Green also constructs a unified and interdisciplinary conceptual framework that illustrates the impacts of job quality on our health and wellbeing. Green then turns to various issues that impact workers--the failure to improve job quality and workers' wellbeing at work despite long-term economic progress, the declining share of labor income, the general increase in work demands, and the prospects for job quality in the new automated world of work.
MoreLong description:
More than three billion people are at work across the globe, and it takes up a huge chunk of the time humans spend on this planet. Policymakers say they want to see "more and better jobs" or "decent work for all" but are good jobs expanding, and if so for whom? Or are bad jobs taking over?
In Hard at Work, Francis Green presents a new, up-to-date account of job quality to understand the immense variety and range of jobs, as well as the evolution of these jobs in the twenty-first century. Drawing on economics, industrial relations, sociology, psychology, and ergonomics, as well as new data sources from countries around the world, Green constructs a unified and interdisciplinary conceptual framework that illustrates the impacts of job quality on our health and wellbeing. He finds that while some work environments can be meaningful, well-paced, safe, well-paid, and supportive, others can be tightly controlled, low-paid, dangerous, insecure, and fast-paced. With this broad picture of job quality, Green turns to various issues that impact workers--the failure to improve job quality and workers' wellbeing at work despite long-term economic growth, the declining share of labor income, the general increase in work demands, and the prospects for job quality in the new automated world of work.
Original and authoritative, Hard at Work provides a global and comprehensive understanding of job quality that raises important questions for this emerging field.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Part A. Framing Job Quality
1. The Significance and Terrain of Job Quality Science
2. Job Quality, Capability, and Wellbeing from Work
3. Better Jobs or Worse? The Forces Shaping Job Quality
Part B. Job Quality Narratives
4. Earnings Quality
5. Prospects and Precariousness
6. Working Time Quality
7. Autonomy and Skill
8. Social Support and Workplace Abuse
9. More Demanding Work
10. Hazards and Harms of the Second Place
Part C. Bad Jobs, Job Quality Policy, and the Future of Work
11. The Conjuncture of Job Quality in the Early Twenty-First Century
12. Making Jobs Better
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
