Hard at Work

Job Quality, Wellbeing, and the Global Economy

Francis Green (Autor)

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328 Seiten

2026
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-769251-6 (ISBN)

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More than three billion people are at work across the globe, and it takes up a huge chunk of the time humans spend on this planet. Policymakers say they want to see "more and better jobs" or "decent work for all" but are good jobs expanding, and if so for whom? Or are bad jobs taking over?

In Hard at Work, Francis Green presents a new, up-to-date account of job quality to understand the immense variety and range of jobs, as well as the evolution of these jobs in the twenty-first century. Drawing on economics, industrial relations, sociology, psychology, and ergonomics, as well as new data sources from countries around the world, Green constructs a unified and interdisciplinary conceptual framework that illustrates the impacts of job quality on our health and wellbeing. He finds that while some work environments can be meaningful, well-paced, safe, well-paid, and supportive, others can be tightly controlled, low-paid, dangerous, insecure, and fast-paced. With this broad picture of job quality, Green turns to various issues that impact workers--the failure to improve job quality and workers' wellbeing at work despite long-term economic growth, the declining share of labor income, the general increase in work demands, and the prospects for job quality in the new automated world of work.

Original and authoritative, Hard at Work provides a global and comprehensive understanding of job quality that raises important questions for this emerging field.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Francis Green is Professor of Work and Education Economics in the Faculty of Education and Society at University College London. His research focuses on job quality, education, and skills. The author of 11 books and more than 200 papers, Green has worked as an occasional expert for the UK government, the Singapore government, the Bruegel thinktank, the European Union, the OECD, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Part A. Framing Job Quality

1. The Significance and Terrain of Job Quality Science

2. Job Quality, Capability, and Wellbeing from Work

3. Better Jobs or Worse? The Forces Shaping Job Quality

Part B. Job Quality Narratives

4. Earnings Quality

5. Prospects and Precariousness

6. Working Time Quality

7. Autonomy and Skill

8. Social Support and Workplace Abuse

9. More Demanding Work

10. Hazards and Harms of the Second Place

Part C. Bad Jobs, Job Quality Policy, and the Future of Work

11. The Conjuncture of Job Quality in the Early Twenty-First Century

12. Making Jobs Better

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.3.2026
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-19-769251-6 / 0197692516
ISBN-13	978-0-19-769251-6 / 9780197692516
Zustand	Neuware