Opportunity Knocks? The Possibilities and Levers for Improving Job Quality

Journal article

This article focuses on demands and interventions to improve or maintain job quality. There is need for better understanding of what can be done, by whom and with what impacts. The article provides a framework for reflection focused on interventions within and outwith the workplace. Drawing on secondary data, it outlines the renewed policy and academic interest in job quality, examines the multi-level reasons for intervention, the factors that shape this intervention and evaluates the loci of intervention. On the basis of the evidence to date, it argues that there is scope for intervention and that intervention can be effective.

Authors: Findlay, P; Warhurst, C; Keep, E; Lloyd, C

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Journal: Work and Occupations
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-22
• Publication date: 2017-01-16
• Acceptance date: 2016-12-30
• DOI: 10.1177/0730888416689813
• EISSN: 1552-8464
• ISSN: 0730-8884
• Keywords: job quality interventions; good jobs; labor unions; bad jobs; labor law; job quality; employer choice; community organisations; education and training