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The insecure workforce / edited by Edmund Heery and John Salmon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in employment relations.
- Routledge studies in employment relations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Job security--Great Britain.
- Job security.
- Unemployment--Great Britain--Psychological aspects.
- Unemployment.
- Labor market--Great Britain.
- Labor market.
- Labor unions--Great Britain.
- Labor unions.
- Industrial relations--Great Britain.
- Industrial relations.
- Consumption (Economics)--Great Britain.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--1997-.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the assumption that an insecure workforce imposes costs on the wider economy and society through lower rates of skill formation, reduced consumer confidence and family instability.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; The contributors; Preface; The insecurity thesis; Insecurity and the flexible workforce: measuring the ill-defined; Heaven knows I'm miserable now: job insecurity in theBritish labour market; Redundancy and the paradox of job insecurity; Employment insecurity in the public services; Gendered employment insecurity?; Management and the insecure workforce: the search for a new psychological contract; Trade unions and the insecure workforce; Job insecurity, psychological well-being and family life; Insecurity and housing consumption; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-85385-128-0
- 1-134-66335-8
- 1-134-66336-6
- 0-429-23209-8
- 1-280-31860-0
- 0-203-44648-8
- 9780429232091
- OCLC:
- 277629379
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