Hard at Work
Job Quality, Wellbeing, and the Global Economy
$257.01
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2026
Summary
More than three billion people are at work across the globe, and it takes up a huge chunk of the time humans spend on this planet. Policymakers say they want to see “more and better jobs” or “decent work for all,” but are good jobs expanding, and if so, for whom? Or are bad jobs taking over?
In Hard at Work, Francis Green presents a new, up-to-date account of job quality to understand the immense variety and range of jobs, as well as their evolution in the twenty-first centur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197692516 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197692516 |
| Author: | Francis Green |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 630g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 165mm x 242mm |
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Francis Green
Francis Green is Professor of Work and Education Economics in the Faculty of Education and Society at University College London. His research focuses on job quality, education, and skills. The author of 11 books and more than 200 papers, Green has worked as an occasional expert for the UK government, the Singapore government, the Bruegel thinktank, the European Union, the OECD, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
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