Quality Work Life

In late February 2016, I was travelling on a daily basis to a cooperage site in Scotland, to conduct several interviews with coopers for the purpose o...

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On 24th May 2016 nurses who work at the Child Health Centre, the major paediatric centre for serious illnesses in Poland, started a strike action.

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What is a measure of a good job is not a common understanding – the EU follows quality of work through at least 3 different indexes[1], employer and employee organizations each have their own[2], ILO follows Decent Work Indicators and OECD has only recently launched its Job Quality Framework.

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The sharing economy: exaggerated optimism? In June Juliet Schor, American professor of sociology at the University of Boston, was a guest at the Univ...

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At the end of April, I visited Glasgow and had occasion to see an interesting documentary with Olena and Radek. I think the subject of it goes well with the discussion that we have now in the blog section - on how to talk about social phenomenons using filming methods.

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These series of posts can be read as an exercise of what actually encompasses resistance, or simply an act of ‘distraction’ from your working lives.

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The Spirit Level is a book written by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in 2009. The book’s main argument is that inequality within a society has ser...

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