Quality Of Work In The European Union

Author : Ana M. Guillén
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052015774
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality of Work in the European Union written by Ana M. Guillén and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume on quality of work in the European Union offers a comprehensive analysis on the current situation of the tensions between work and welfare in Europe, with a special emphasis on employment-related issues. The volume tackles a crucial aspect of employment policies, namely the strengthening of the quality dimension in the decisions taken by policy-makers to foster the performance of the labour market and to combine this orientation with the demands of workers for welfare, protection and a better reconciliation of work and family life. Quality of work has been on the agenda of policy-makers, practitioners and academics for the last few years, promoting a wide debate. The book provides a contribution to this debate and takes into consideration a range of issues associated with the analysis of work quality from an innovative perspective. Relevant subtopics including a conceptual and political analysis of work quality, wage differentials and in-work poverty, gender issues or workers' direct and indirect representation in the firm and its relation with work quality are addressed.

Author : Helena Legido-Quigley
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9289071931
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union written by Helena Legido-Quigley and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.

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ISBN 13 : 9789289701563
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality of Work and Employment in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dominique Méda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319395254
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Work in Europe written by Dominique Méda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time. Taking as its basis a number of international surveys and interviews conducted in Europe, the authors consider the significance of work for Europeans today. Over the years the meaning of work has changed. It has become more highly diversified, and it is today invested with high expectations that conflict with organisational developments and the changing nature of the labour market. The authors use a generational perspective to explore whether it is possible to reconcile the contemporary “ethos” of work, especially with regards to women and young people, with organisations that are increasingly under pressure to be profitable and productive. Reinventing Work in Europe will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of sociology of work, employment and organizations, labour studies, digital economy, and political economy.

Author : Marco Biagi
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9041118853
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality of Work and Employee Involvement in Europe written by Marco Biagi and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2002-08-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteen essays in this volume concentrate on the issues surrounding workers' participation, the area of industrial relations uppermost in Marco Biagi's thinking at the time of his assassination in March 2002. The trend toward ever greater employee involvement in managerial decisionmaking has been growing in Europe for over a decade, to a significant extent as a result of Biagi's work. From the start, he clearly discerned that the key to quality of work was worker participation. This book stands not merely as a homage, but as evidence that Biagi's assassination will not affect the progress he was making. In what amounts to an integrated series of recommendations for further European legislation on workers' participation in industrial relations, the authors analyse and evaluate the following: experience gained from implementation of the European Works Council Directive and the European Company Statute Directive; implications of the new Directive on Information/Consultation in National Undertakings and of the European Forum on the Financial Participation of Workers; and experience in a variety of national contexts, including those of Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Poland, and Slovenia. In the final analysis, employee involvement--when it is a genuine commitment on the part of all stakeholders--is seen as a sharing of cultural values that successfully reconciles efficiency and social justice. Those who believe this is a goal worth achieving, for reasons both economic and social, will recognize in this book an immensely valuable contribution.

Author : Juhani Ilmarinen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789518026856
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Longer Worklife! written by Juhani Ilmarinen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides a broad span of information with which to plan a better worklife. It contains a unique comparison of the situation of ageing employees in different EU countries" -- Back cover.

Author : Antoine Valeyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789289708326
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Conditions in the European Union written by Antoine Valeyre and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Milena Büchs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230591507
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Governance in European Social Policy written by Milena Büchs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Büchs analyses the goals and instruments of the Open Method of Coordination, discusses approaches which theorize its functioning, examines its policy content and develops a framework for its evaluation. Through the examination of a case study the author demonstrates how policy actors apply the OMC in employment in Germany and the United Kingdom.

Author : Duncan Gallie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199566038
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work written by Duncan Gallie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book makes a major new contribution to the sociology of employment by comparing the quality of working life in European societies with very different institutional systems--France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and Sweden. It focuses in particular on skills and skill development, opportunities for training, the scope for initiative in work, the difficulty of combining work and family life, and the security of employment. Drawing on a range of nationally representative surveys, it reveals striking differences in the quality of work in different European countries. It also provides for the first time rigorous comparative evidence on the experiences of different types of employee and an assessment of whether there has been a trend over time to greater polarization between a core workforce of relatively privileged employees and a peripheral workforce suffering from cumulative disadvantage. It explores the relevance of three influential theoretical perspectives, focussing respectively on the common dynamics of capitalist societies, differences in production regimes between capitalist societies, and differences in the institutional systems of employment regulation. It argues that it is the third of these--an 'employment regime' perspective--that provides the most convincing account of the factors that affect the quality of work in capitalist societies. The findings underline the importance of differences in national policies for people's experiences of work and point to the need for a renewal at European level of initiatives for improving the quality of work.

Author : Samantha Velluti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136927778
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Governance and the European Employment Strategy written by Samantha Velluti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years new or experimental approaches to governance in the EU, namely the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), have attracted great interest and controversy. This book examines the European Employment Strategy (EES) and its implementation through the OMC, exploring the promises and limitations of the EES for EU social law and policy and for the safeguard of social rights. This significant and timely work offers new insights and fresh perspectives into the operation of New Governance and its relationship with both European and national law and constitutionalism. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in European law – specifically in the field of EU employment law and gender equality – and European governance studies in general.