Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?—Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century

Job quality matters. It contributes to economic competitiveness, social cohesion and personal well-being. Focusing on "bad jobs", this book outlines debates, developments, issues and trends in job quality whilst asking the question are bad jobs inevitable?.

Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, the book defines and measures bad jobs; explains variation and change in job quality; and identifies workplace practices and broader non-workplace strategies for making bad jobs better.

Key Benefits:
- An essential collection for the study of labor and job quality
- Written by leading experts
- Contains cutting edge research on contemporary topics relating to work and employment

Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? is an ideal companion for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of Sociology, Labor Relations, Labor Economics, Organization Studies, HRM and Employee Relations.

CHRIS WARHURST is Professor of Work and Organizational Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

FRANCOISE J. CARRE is Research Director at the Center for Social Policy at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy & Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston.

PATRICIA FINDLAY is Professor of Work and Employment Relations at the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde Business School and Director of the Scottish Center for Employment Research, University of Strathclyde, UK.

CHRIS TILLY is Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California Los Angeles.