‘More and better jobs’: is quality of work still an issue – and was it ever?

Quality of work is a core element of the European social model. In this article we analyse the role and instruments of EU actors in this policy area in order to discover the extent to which it has been institutionalized since the mid-1990s. We first demonstrate that quality of work has to be underst...

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Published inTransfer (Brussels, Belgium) Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 337 - 353
Main Authors Bothfeld, Silke, Leschke, Janine
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2012
Sage
Subjects
Arbeitsbedingungen
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Employment
EU-Sozialpolitik
EU-Staaten
Europe
European policy
European Union
Job analysis
Quality of work
Social policy
Sozialpartner
Job quality
European social policy
European Employment Strategy
European social model
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Summary:Quality of work is a core element of the European social model. In this article we analyse the role and instruments of EU actors in this policy area in order to discover the extent to which it has been institutionalized since the mid-1990s. We first demonstrate that quality of work has to be understood as a multi-dimensional concept, before analysing the respective roles of and interactions between the Council, the Commission, the European Parliament and the social partners. Both the definition of the subject as a policy problem and the construction of a comprehensive indicator-based monitoring tool represent necessary, albeit not sufficient, steps to promote the quality dimension of work. The article is based on document and secondary literature analysis as well as expert interviews.
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ISSN:1024-2589
1996-7284
DOI:10.1177/1024258912448602