Quality of Life and Work in Europe: Theory, Practice and Policy

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Contributors......Page 12
1 Quality of Life and Work in a Changing Europe......Page 16
Part I: Context, Theory and Methods......Page 30
2 Quality of Life and Work in a Changing Europe: A Theoretical Framework......Page 32
3 The Institutional Context of the Quality of Life......Page 47
4 Data and Methods......Page 70
Part II: Empirical Results......Page 90
5 Quality of Work and Quality of Life of Service Sector Workers: Cross-national Variations in Eight European Countries......Page 92
6 Quality of Life and Satisfaction with the Work–life Balance......Page 110
7 Variations in Work–life Balance Satisfaction among Service Sector Employees......Page 133
8 Competing Demands: Work and Child Well-being......Page 150
9 Gender Differences in Quality of Life......Page 164
Part III: Policy Implications and the Future Research Agenda......Page 178
10 Healthy Organizations......Page 180
11 Scenarios for the Quality of Life in the Europe of the Future......Page 201
12 The Social Quality Instrument: Measuring the Social Quality of Work in European Workplaces......Page 221
13 Quality of Life and Work in a Changing Europe: Future Challenges......Page 232
Bibliography......Page 248
Index......Page 267