Job Quality in a Turbulent Era

AvJanine Leschke,Agnieszka Piasna

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-24
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:In a Turbulent Era series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035343478

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Arbetsmarknaden inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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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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‘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.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents1 Job Quality in a Turbulent Era: Understanding, Measuringand Improving Job Quality in a Profoundly Changing Worldof Work 1Agnieszka Piasna and Janine Leschke2 The Environmental Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities forJob Quality 25Chris Mathieu3 What is AI Doing to Job Quality? Platformization, FissuredWorkplaces and Dispersion 47Antonio A. Casilli and Paola Tubaro4 Rethinking Job Quality Frameworks in the Context ofPlatform Work: Evidence from Developed and DevelopingCountries 63Uma Rani and Nora Gobel5 Datafication, Surveillance and Automation: using theFairwork AI Principles to Capture Workers’ Experience in theDigital Economy 83Funda Ustek Spilda, Lola Brittain, Oğuz Alyanak and Mark Graham6 Studying Precarious Work in Times of ‘Societal Turbulence’:Unpaid Labour and Work-Life Balance Deprivation 104Valeria Pulignano and Michael Dunn7 Fragmentation of Employment Patterns: Conceptualizing JobQuality in the Context of Multiple Jobholding 124Wieteke Séphier Conen8 Job Quality Challenges for Women by Social Class 146Jill Rubery9 Job Quality as a Crucial Measure of Migrants’ EconomicIntegration 168Tanja Fendel and Yuliya Kosyakova10 Implications of the Capability Approach for the RelationshipBetween Job Quality and Wellbeing 190Francis Green11 Who Has The Worst Job? Multidimensional Deprivation andInterpersonal Comparisons in the Job Quality Debate 209Kirsten Sehnbruch and Mauricio Apablaza12 What is the Connection Between Employee Voice and JobQuality? 228Stewart Johnstone and Adrian Wilkinson