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What is a 'good' job? Modelling job quality for blue collar workers

This paper proposes a model of job quality, developed from interviews with blue collar workers: bus drivers, manufacturing operatives and cleaners (n=80). The model distinguishes between core features, important for almost all workers, and 'job fit' features, important to some but not othe...

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Main Authors:	Wendy Jones, Roger Haslam, Cheryl Haslam
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Other health sciences not elsewhere classified Job quality Good jobs Good work Health Bus drivers Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/20986
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