TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Job quality and the economics of New Labour: a critical appraisal using subjective survey data
JO  - Cambridge journal of economics
A1  - Brown, Andrew
A1  - Charlwood, Andy
A1  - Forde, Chris
A1  - Spencer, David
SP  - 941
EP  - 971
VL  - 31
IS  - 6
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0309-166X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bem028
ID  - ref1
ER  -