Duncan Gallie is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. His research has focussed on the changing experience of work and on the social consequences of unemployment. He was national coordinator of the ESRC's Social Change and Economic Life Initiative and has been European coordinator of several EU cross-national research programmes. He is Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy and was a member of the EU's Advisory Group for the Social Sciences and Humanities for the Sixth Framework Programme.

This is an impressive study which generates many new ideas and angles for the analysis of policies in relation to the quality of work

• 1. Production Regimes, Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work ; 2. Skills and Wages in European Labour Markets: Structure and Change ; 3. Job-Related Training in Europe: Do Institutions Matter? ; 4. Task Discretion and Job Quality ; 5. Work and Family in Conflict? The Impact of Work Demands on Family Life ; 6. Job Insecurity ; 7. The Quality of Work Life in Comparative Perspective ; References ; Index

Duncan Gallie is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. His research has focussed on the changing experience of work and on the social consequences of unemployment. He was national coordinator of the ESRC's Social Change and Economic Life Initiative and has been European coordinator of several EU cross-national research programmes. He is Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy and was a member of the EU's Advisory Group for the Social Sciences and Humanities for the Sixth Framework Programme.

This is an impressive study which generates many new ideas and angles for the analysis of policies in relation to the quality of work

• 1. Production Regimes, Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work ; 2. Skills and Wages in European Labour Markets: Structure and Change ; 3. Job-Related Training in Europe: Do Institutions Matter? ; 4. Task Discretion and Job Quality ; 5. Work and Family in Conflict? The Impact of Work Demands on Family Life ; 6. Job Insecurity ; 7. The Quality of Work Life in Comparative Perspective ; References ; Index

Duncan Gallie is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. His research has focussed on the changing experience of work and on the social consequences of unemployment. He was national coordinator of the ESRC's Social Change and Economic Life Initiative and has been European coordinator of several EU cross-national research programmes. He is Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy and was a member of the EU's Advisory Group for the Social Sciences and Humanities for the Sixth Framework Programme.

This is an impressive study which generates many new ideas and angles for the analysis of policies in relation to the quality of work

• 1. Production Regimes, Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work ; 2. Skills and Wages in European Labour Markets: Structure and Change ; 3. Job-Related Training in Europe: Do Institutions Matter? ; 4. Task Discretion and Job Quality ; 5. Work and Family in Conflict? The Impact of Work Demands on Family Life ; 6. Job Insecurity ; 7. The Quality of Work Life in Comparative Perspective ; References ; Index