Unequal Britain at Work [Hardcover]

This book provides the first systematic assessment of trends in inequality in job quality in Britain in recent decades. It assesses the pattern of change drawing on the nationally representative Skills and Employment Surveys (SES) carried out at regular intervals from 1986 to 2012.This book provides the first systematic assessment of trends in inequality in job quality in Britain in recent decades. It assesses the pattern of change drawing on the nationally representative Skills and Employment Surveys (SES) carried out at regular intervals from 1986 to 2012. These surveys collect data from workers themselves thereby providing a unique picture of trends in job quality.The book is concerned both with wage and non-wage inequalities (focusing, in particular on skills, training, task discretion, work intensity, organizational participation, and job security), and how these inequalities relate to class, gender, contract status, unionisation, and type of employer. Amid rising wage inequality there has nevertheless been some improvement in the relative job quality experienced by women, part-time employees, and temporary workers. Yet the book reveals the remarkable persistence of major inequalities in the working conditions of other categories of employee across periods of both economic boom and crisis.Beginning with a theoretical overview, before describing the main data series, this book examines how job quality differs between groups and across time.1. The Inequality of Job Quality,Francis Green, Alan Felstead and Duncan Gallie2. Class Inequality in Job Quality: Trends Towards Polarization?,Duncan Gallie3. Gender Differences in Job Quality,Joanne Lindley4. The Quality of Part-time Work,Tracey Warren and Clare Lyonette5. Temporary Work and Job Quality,Hande Inanc6. Job Quality and the Self-employed: Is It Still Better to Work for Yourself?,Ben Baumberg and Nigel Meager7. Unions and Job Quality,Alex Bryson and FrancilS·