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

• Published in: Transfer (Brussels, Belgium) Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 337 - 353
• Main Authors: Bothfeld, Silke, Leschke, Janine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...