Job quality and the economics of New Labour: a critical appraisal using subjective survey data |
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Authors: | Brown, Andrew Charlwood, Andy Forde, Chris Spencer, David |
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Affiliation: | * Leeds University Business School (Brown, Forde and Spencer) and Warwick Business School (Charlwood) |
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Abstract: | This paper assesses the record on job quality during the earlyterm of office of the New Labour government by interpreting,from a political economy perspective, changes in a variety ofsubjective measures of job quality taken from several differentdata sources. We find some improvements in job quality overthe period 1998–2004; however we argue that these improvementshave arisen not because of New Labour's policies towards theworkplace but because of low and falling rates of unemployment.Despite recent improvements, a large number of workers in Britainremain in low quality jobs and, without a radical change ofpolicy direction, sustained and substantial progress in thequality of work will remain elusive. |
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Keywords: | Economics of happiness Job quality New Labour Political economy |
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