"Hard Work in New Jobs investigates hard work and new and expanding jobs in Europe. The interrelationship between the labour market and welfare regimes, quality of work and quality of life is played out at many levels: the institutional; the organizational level of the company and its customers...

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / Schenk, Christopher / Anderson, John -- Riding the Digital Revolution: The Impact of Technological Change on Workers in the Commercial Printing Industry / Hadley, Karen -- Information Highway and the Technological Revolution: Toll...

Introduction -- Job, many lives -- Assembling a labor market -- Mediators unpacked -- Firms : seeing like a call center -- The state : making a middle path -- Labor : seeking the Philippine dream -- Three archetypes -- Responsible women -- Restless gays -- Rooted men -- Conclusion -- Gone baby...