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The fissured workplace : why work became so bad for so many and what can be done to improve it
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ISBN: 9780674725447 0674725441 9780674975446 0674975448 067472612X 9780674726123 0674727096 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press,

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In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety protections, and ever-widening income inequality. From the perspectives of CEOs and investors, fissuring--splitting off functions that were once managed internally--has been phenomenally successful. Despite giving up direct control to subcontractors and franchises, these large companies have figured out how to maintain the quality of brand-name products and services, without the cost of maintaining an expensive workforce. But from the perspective of workers, this strategy has meant stagnation in wages and benefits and a lower standard of living. Weil proposes ways to modernize regulatory policies so that employers can meet their obligations to workers while allowing companies to keep the beneficial aspects of this business strategy.


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Quality of life research.
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ISSN: 09629343 15732649 Year: 1992 Publisher: Dordrecht Kluwer.

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Quality of Life Research is an international, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the rapid communication of original research, theoretical articles and methodological reports related to the field of quality of life in all the health sciences. The journal also publishes editorials, literature, book and software reviews, correspondence and abstracts of conferences. Quality of life has become a prominent subject in biometry, philosophy, social science, clinical medicine, health services and outcomes research. Therefore, the journal's scope reflects the wide application of quality of life assessment and research in the biological and social sciences. Manuscript submissions of original work are subjected to peer review for originality, scientific quality and relevance to a broad readership.

Living standards in the past : new perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe
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ISBN: 0199280681 0191602469 1281925217 0191535737 1435699726 9786611925215 9780199280681 9780191535734 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University,

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When did Europe pull ahead of Asia in terms of living standards? A number of well-known scholars compare economic and demographic indicators of well-being in the pre-industrial period. The emerging picture is not one of great differences, but of considerable similarities in standard of living between Europe and Asia before the Industrial Revolution.

Taking the measure of work : a guide to validated scales for organizational research and diagnosis
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ISBN: 0761924256 9780761924258 1322419876 1452231141 1483303624 Year: 2002 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : SAGE,

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This text provides researchers and consultants with access to 137 validated measures for organizational research and consulting. The measures assess employee perceptions about, and affective responses to, the experience of their work.


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Journal of happiness studies.
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ISSN: 13894978 15737780 Year: 2000 Publisher: Netherlands : [Switzerland] : Kluwer Academic Publishers : Springer,

The ostrich factor : our population Myopia
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ISBN: 0195122747 019535270X 1280530057 0585111952 9780585111957 9780195122749 019770218X Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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Garrett Hardin addresses the arguments from economists about continued "sustainable" growth. This text seeks to lay out the practical steps that humankind must take quite early in the 21st century for the long-term survival of civilization.


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Quality of life research.
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ISSN: 15732649 Year: 1992 Publisher: Oxford, UK : Rapid Communications of Oxford Ltd.

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Quality of Life Research is an international, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the rapid communication of original research, theoretical articles and methodological reports related to the field of quality of life in all the health sciences. The journal also publishes editorials, literature, book and software reviews, correspondence and abstracts of conferences.

Demanding work
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ISBN: 0691134413 1299988113 0691117128 1400849438 9780691117126 9781400849437 9780691134413 Year: 2006 Publisher: Princeton

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Since the early 1980's, a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of the industrialized world. Many workers are doing more skilled and fulfilling jobs, and getting paid more for their trouble. Yet it is often alleged that the quality of work life has deteriorated, with a substantial and rising proportion of jobs providing low wages and little security, or requiring unusually hard and stressful effort. In this unique and authoritative formal account of changing job quality, economist Francis Green highlights contrasting trends, using quantitative indicators drawn from public opinion surveys and administrative data. In most affluent countries average pay levels have risen along with economic growth, a major exception being the United States. Skill requirements have increased, potentially meaning a more fulfilling time at work. Set against these beneficial trends, however, are increases in inequality, a strong intensification of work effort, diminished job satisfaction, and less employee influence over daily work tasks. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Demanding Work shows how aspects of job quality are related, and how changes in the quality of work life stem from technological change and transformations in the politico-economic environment. The book concludes by discussing what individuals, firms, unions, and governments can do to counter declining job quality.

The essentials of the new workplace : a guide to the human impact of modern working practices
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ISBN: 0470022159 9786610268757 1280268751 0470022167 9780470022153 9780470022160 9781280268755 6610268754 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons,

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The original hardback edition of The New Workplace examined modern business terms such as total quality management, just-in-time production, e-business, lean manufacturing and teleworking. It explored what these terms really mean and what effect they have in practice - especially their impact on productivity and performance and their social and psychological consequences. This paperback is a shorter, revised version of the original book. It will focus on working practices, especially technology orientated ones, which are the most relevant and innovative for consultants.

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Quality of work life. --- Job satisfaction. --- Psychology, Industrial. --- Work environment. --- Work design. --- Human-machine systems. --- Industrial relations. --- Qualité de la vie au travail --- Satisfaction au travail --- Psychologie du travail --- Conditions de travail --- Travail --- Systèmes homme-machine --- Relations industrielles --- Conception --- Quality of work life --- Job satisfaction --- Psychology, Industrial --- Work environment --- Work design --- Human-machine systems --- Industrial relations --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Qualité de la vie au travail --- Systèmes homme-machine --- Capital and labor --- Employee-employer relations --- Employer-employee relations --- Labor and capital --- Labor-management relations --- Labor relations --- Human operators (Systems engineering) --- Human subsystems (Systems engineering) --- Man-machine control systems --- Man-machine systems --- Operator-machine systems --- Design of work systems --- Job design --- Work systems design --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Business psychology --- Industrial psychology --- Psychotechnics --- Occupational satisfaction --- Work satisfaction --- Humanization of work life --- Quality of working life --- Work life, Quality of --- Working life, Quality of --- Employees --- Management --- Engineering systems --- Human engineering --- Methods engineering --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Personnel management --- Psychology, Applied --- Industrial psychologists --- Satisfaction --- Job enrichment --- Quality of life --- Work --- Samfundsvidenskab --- Økonomi. --- E-books


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Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
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ISSN: 1670875X 16708768 Year: 2010 Publisher: [Reykjavik] : Félagsfræđingafélag Íslands

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