Hard Work in New Jobs: The Quality of Work and Life in European Growth Sectors

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: New and Growing but Not Necessarily Better — Expanding Jobs in Europe....Pages 1-10
A Hard Job Is Good to Find: Comparability, Contextuality and Stakeholder Involvement in European Job Quality Research....Pages 11-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Using Business Functions to Identify New and Growing Jobs....Pages 35-48
Examining the Quality of Jobs amongst Vulnerable Groups of Workers in Europe....Pages 49-69
Subjective Well-Being at the Workplace....Pages 70-83
Material Well-Being and Job Quality: Some Descriptive Statistics....Pages 84-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Institutional Anchors for Job Quality — The Case of Industrial Relations....Pages 101-113
Can Social Partners Improve the Quality of Work in Low-Wage Work in Europe?....Pages 114-129
The (In)Visible Third Party: De- and Re-regulation of Working Conditions through Public Procurement....Pages 130-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Low-Paid but Satisfied? How Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Workers in Low-Wage Jobs Make Sense of Their Wages....Pages 151-168
Working for Life: Workers’ Career Aspirations and Their Experiences of Past Career Trajectories and Present Working Conditions....Pages 169-188
Out of Sight: Dimensions of Working Time in Gendered Occupations....Pages 189-207
Gender-Typing of Low-Wage Work: A Comparative Analysis of Commercial Cleaning in Austria, Domiciliary Elderly Care in Germany and the Waste Sector in Bulgaria....Pages 208-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Autonomy in Unlikely Places: Preconditions in Low-Skilled Jobs....Pages 231-249
Reciprocity, Allegiance and the Market: Social Integration Still at Work....Pages 250-271
Back Matter....Pages 272-304