Low-wage work in the United Kingdom
By: Caroline Lloyd, Geoff Mason, and Ken Mayhew, editors
Series: The Russell Sage Foundation case studies of job quality in advanced economies
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780871545633
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The United Kingdom story / Robert Solow; title: Low-paid work in the United Kingdom : an overview / Geoff Mason, Ken Mayhew, and Matthew Osborne; title: Low pay, labor market institutions, and job quality in the United Kingdom / Geoff Mason ... [et al.]; title: "Just like the elves in Harry Potter" : room attendants in United Kingdom hotels / Eli Dutton ... [et al.]; title: Business strategies, work organization, and low pay in United Kingdom retailing / Geoff Mason and Matthew Osborne; title: Improving the position of low-wage workers through new coordinating institutions : the case of public hospitals / Damian Grimshaw and Marilyn Carroll; title: Supply chain pressures and migrant workers : deteriorating job quality in the United Kingdom food-processing industry / Susan James and Caroline Lloyd; title: "It's just the nature of the job at the end of the day" : pay and job quality in United Kingdom mass-market call centers / Caroline Lloyd ... [et al.]; title: Low-wage work in the United Kingdom : employment practices, institutional effects, and policy responses / Damian Grimshaw, Caroline Lloyd, and Chris Warhurst.