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Citation |
Brown A, Charlwood A, Forde C, Spencer D. Camb. J. Econ. 2007; 31(6): 941-971. |
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(Copyright © 2007, Cambridge Political Economy Society, Publisher Oxford University Press) |
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Abstract |
This paper assesses the record on job quality during the early term of office of the New Labour government by interpreting, from a political economy perspective, changes in a variety of subjective measures of job quality taken from several different data sources. We find some improvements in job quality over the period 1998-2004; however we argue that these improvements have arisen not because of New Labour's policies towards the workplace but because of low and falling rates of unemployment. Despite recent improvements, a large number of workers in Britain remain in low quality jobs and, without a radical change of policy direction, sustained and substantial progress in the quality of work will remain elusive. |