PART I Overview. Featuring policies on precarious work in Asia -- Confronting precarious work in Asia: politics and policies -- PART II Country case studies. Policy responses to the precarity of non-regular employment in Japan -- Labor market flexibility and policy issues of non-regular...

Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Job Quality in the United States -- Part I: Changing Work Structures and Workers -- Chapter 2: Economic Transformation and the Decline of Institutional Protections -- Chapter 3: New Workers, New Differences -- Part II:...

This paper examines the perceived quality of jobs held by a sample of members of the International Association of Machinists, a large union in North America. It is argued that useful insights can be obtained by examining the relationships between global and specific measures of job quality. We...