Professor Duncan Gallie, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

2.00 to 3.30 pm, Thursday 1 December 2011, Room 790, Institute of Education

This presentation will examine differences between European societies with respect to two key aspects of the quality of work – the degree of influence that employees can exercise over the way they do their jobs and the opportunities they have to develop their skills at work. It takes as its point of departure an influential argument about variation in capitalist societies – ‘production regime theory’ – and considers how well it accounts for the empirical differences in both industrial relations institutions and employees’ experience of work. It compares five major country groupings – the Nordic, the Continental Coordinated, the State Coordinated, the Liberal and the East European ‘Transition’ countries using evidence from the European Social Survey.

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