Format:
1 online resource (337 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415283229
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9780203500583
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks Series
Content:
The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the service sector is the only one in which employment will grow in future. The reasons for this is the subject of much controversy and debate, the outcomes of which are not merely of academic interest but of decisive importance for economic policy and the quality of working and living conditions in future. In order to examine these various arguments, research teams from eight European countries worked together for three years on a comparative study of the evolution of service sector employment in EU member states. They also investigated working and employment conditions in five very different service industries (banking, retailing, hospitals, IT services and care of the elderly) in a number of countries, and the results of their research are presented in this informative new collection, of interest to students academics and researchers involved in all aspects of industrial economics
Note:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Series-Title -- Title -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Different service societies in Europe -- 2 Measuring economic tertiarisation -- 3 The incidence of new forms of employment in service activities -- 4 Why do countries have such different service-sector employment rates -- 5 Services and the employment prospects for women -- Part II The organisations of service work -- 6 The family, the state, and now the market -- 7 The reluctant nurses -- 8 Work hard, play hard -- 9 Work organisation and the importance of labour markets in the European retail trade -- 10 Lean banking -- Part III Common challenges -- 11 The shaping of work and working time in the service sector -- 12 The delegation of uncertainty -- 13 Can trade unions meet the challenge -- 14 Diversity and regulation of markets for services -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Bosch, Gerhard Working in the Service Sector London : Taylor & Francis Group,c2005 ISBN 9780415283229
Language:
English
Keywords:
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