This book provides the first systematic assessment of trends in inequality in job quality in Britain in recent decades. It assesses the pattern of change drawing on the nationally representative Skills and Employment Surveys (SES) carried out at regular intervals from 1986 to 2012.

1. The Inequality of Job Quality ; 2. Class Inequality in Job Quality: Trends Towards Polarization? ; 3. Gender Differences in Job Quality ; 4. The Quality of Part-time Work ; 5. Temporary Work and Job Quality ; 6. Job Quality and the Self-employed: Is It Still Better to Work for Yourself? ; 7. Unions and Job Quality ; 8. Is the Public Sector Pay Advantage Explained by Differences in Work Quality? ; 9. The Employee Experience of High Involvement Management in Britain ; 10. Policies for Intrinsic Job Quality

Offers both a historical perspective and up to date picture Based on the voices and experiences of workers themselves Uses high-quality, clustered random survey sampling Has implications for skills; training and job quality policies Important study of work and inequality

Alan Felstead is Research Professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University in the UK. He is also a Visiting Professor at the ESRC Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES), Institute of Education, University of London. He has published numerous books and articles on skills, training and employment. Recent books include Improving Working as Learning (Routledge, 2009) and Changing Places of Work (Palgrave, 2005). Duncan Gallie is Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. His research has examined the changing nature of job quality both in Britain and Europe, the social consequences of unemployment and attitudes to inequality. His most recent book is Economic Crisis, Quality of Work and Social Integration (Oxford University Press, 2013). He has been Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy. Francis Green is Professor of Work and Education Economics at the ESRC Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES), Institute of Education, UCL. His research focuses on skills, training, work quality and industrial relations issues. His most recent book is Skills and Skilled Work: An Economic and Social Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2013). He is a regular consultant on skills and job quality issues with national governments and international organisations such as the OECD, ILO and the European Commission.

Offers both a historical perspective and up to date picture Based on the voices and experiences of workers themselves Uses high-quality, clustered random survey sampling Has implications for skills; training and job quality policies Important study of work and inequality