What's Happening at Work? More Tasks, Less Job Security and Work Intensification

M. O'Donnell, D. Peetz and C. Allan

Working Papers from The University of New South Wales. Department of Industrial Relations.

Abstract: The paper argues that the adoption of more flexible labour policies has been a major feature of work and employment restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s. We argue that there are three main dimensions of labour utilisation: work intensification; job broadening and employment insecurity. These dimensions are afecting both standard 'core' workers and non-standard 'peripheral' workers.

Keywords: LABOUR POLICY; EMPLOYMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 1998
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