@article{ref1,
title="Job quality and the economics of New Labour: a critical appraisal using subjective survey data",
journal="Cambridge journal of economics",
year="2007",
author="Brown, Andrew and Charlwood, Andy and Forde, Chris and Spencer, David",
volume="31",
number="6",
pages="941-971",
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.<p />",
language="",
issn="0309-166X",
doi="10.1093/cje/bem028",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bem028"
}