This timely book explores job quality in contemporary labour markets, investigating how rapid transformations such as digitalisation, the green transition, fragmentation and shifting demographics are reshaping the world of work. Presenting fresh perspectives and updated tools to analyse challenges related to gig work, AI, algorithmic management, multiple jobholding and the environmental crisis, it reevaluates the definition of what makes a good job in the modern era.
Contributing authors build on insights from the capabilities approach, multiple deprivation and precarity to explore how gender, class, and migration status shape access to good-quality jobs, and how experiences of work differ according to socio-economic background and work arrangements. The book also expands the notion of job quality beyond individual well-being to include broader goals such as fairness, sustainability and social inclusion. Bridging disciplines and regions, it integrates theoretical and empirical insights with practical guidance to help improve job quality in an era of profound and ongoing transformation.
Job Quality in a Turbulent Era is an essential read for scholars and students of sociology, political science, employment relations, labour law and business. Offering conceptual and empirical insights this book is also an important resource for policymakers and practitioners concerned with labour market issues.
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This excellent book, expertly curated by Piasna and Leschke, presents a powerful case for rethinking what makes a good job. Brimming with ideas and new empirical analyses, the book shows why global disruptions - from AI and platforms to the environmental crisis - demand a new approach to job quality measures and policy solutions. -- Damian Grimshaw, Kings College London, UK Rapid transformations in work and labor markets produced by artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and environmental concerns require new ways of analyzing and improving the quality of jobs. The timely, multidisciplinary chapters in this book point to exciting new frameworks to understand and measure changes in job quality. -- Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jobs and labour markets have transformed over the past 15 years - and so has the way we understand and measure job quality. This book captures these complex shifts magnificently, offering a clear overview of the latest debates. Essential reading for researchers and policymakers alike. -- Brendan Burchell, University of Cambridge, UK
Contents
1 Job Quality in a Turbulent Era: Understanding, Measuring
and Improving Job Quality in a Profoundly Changing World
of Work 1
Agnieszka Piasna and Janine Leschke
2 The Environmental Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for
Job Quality 25
Chris Mathieu
3 What is AI Doing to Job Quality? Platformization, Fissured
Workplaces and Dispersion 47
Antonio A. Casilli and Paola Tubaro
4 Rethinking Job Quality Frameworks in the Context of
Platform Work: Evidence from Developed and Developing
Countries 63
Uma Rani and Nora Gobel
5 Datafication, Surveillance and Automation: using the
Fairwork AI Principles to Capture Workers Experience in the
Digital Economy 83
Funda Ustek Spilda, Lola Brittain, Ouz Alyanak and Mark Graham
6 Studying Precarious Work in Times of Societal Turbulence:
Unpaid Labour and Work-Life Balance Deprivation 104
Valeria Pulignano and Michael Dunn
7 Fragmentation of Employment Patterns: Conceptualizing Job
Quality in the Context of Multiple Jobholding 124
Wieteke Séphier Conen
8 Job Quality Challenges for Women by Social Class 146
Jill Rubery
9 Job Quality as a Crucial Measure of Migrants Economic
Integration 168
Tanja Fendel and Yuliya Kosyakova
10 Implications of the Capability Approach for the Relationship
Between Job Quality and Wellbeing 190
Francis Green
11 Who Has The Worst Job? Multidimensional Deprivation and
Interpersonal Comparisons in the Job Quality Debate 209
Kirsten Sehnbruch and Mauricio Apablaza
12 What is the Connection Between Employee Voice and Job
Quality? 228
Stewart Johnstone and Adrian Wilkinson
Edited by Agnieszka Piasna, Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium and Janine Leschke, Professor in Political Economy of Labour Markets, Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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