‘More and Better Jobs’: Is Quality of Work Still an Issue - and Was It Ever?

Silke Bothfeld; Janine Leschke

doi:10.1177/1024258912448602

‘More and Better Jobs’: Is Quality of Work Still an Issue - and Was It Ever?

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	Transfer: European review of Labour and Research
Volume	18
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	337-353
ISSN	1024-2589
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1024258912448602
Publication status	Published - Aug 2012

Keywords

Job Quality
European Social Model
European Employment Strategy
European Social Policy

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