Introduction. Making work better

Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, Christian Lévesque, Gregor Murray and Nicolas Roby
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Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau: École de relations industrielles (ÉRIUM) and Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Université de Montréal, Canada
Christian Lévesque: Département de la gestion des ressources humaines and Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), HEC Montréal, Canada
Gregor Murray: École de relations industrielles (ÉRIUM) and Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Université de Montréal, Canada
Nicolas Roby: Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Université de Montréal, Canada

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2023, vol. 29, issue 3, 277-284

Abstract: From the premise that better work makes for better societies, the challenge, taken up in the introduction to this special issue of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research , is to explore what makes work better, or worse, and how it can be improved. As a wide variety of experiments shape our economies and communities for the future, a key challenge is to engage in shared learning about these processes in order to stimulate a dialogue between the aspiration for better work and the conditions likely to hinder or facilitate making work better. It is an invitation to move from narrow conceptions of job quality to a broader lens of how world-of-work actors strategise, innovate and incorporate uncertainty into their search for sustainable solutions for better work. Key themes include: why work needs to be better (but is often worse); why better work makes for better societies; how work can be made better; the role of institutions in achieving better work; and, finally, how union strategies are essential to processes of experimentation to make work better.

Keywords: Better work; better societies; job quality; experimentation; trade union strategies; institutions; actor agency; democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/10242589231206362

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