Flexibility and working conditions : a qualitive and comparative study in seven EU member states
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Within the context of profound transformations in work and employment, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has undertaken a qualitative and comparative study concerning the impact of flexibility on working conditions in the European Union. Complementing other quantitative analyses the report focuses on the differentiated perceptions of working conditions between 'flexible' and 'non-flexible' workers. The concept of working conditions defined in this report includes both 'conditions of work' and 'conditions of employment'. Flexibility is shown to be a heterogeneous concept, linking both quantitative/qualitative and external/internal variables. The research then points to three typical situations: a 'cumulative' situation, where both aspects of working life are perceived as deteriorating for flexible workers; a 'non-cumulative' one, where differentiation between flexible and core workers is reported in the area of 'conditions of employment' only; a 'transversal' one, where job monotony and/or job intensification are expressed by all workers despite limited improvements due to functional flexibility.
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TNO Identifier
170070
ISBN
92-828-9767-2
Publisher
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities ; European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Collation
150 p.
Place of publication
Luxembourg