Chris Warhurst - Spotlight

A seminar series devoted to investigating what makes jobs 'bad' and how to make them better launched last week (March 5) at Strathclyde Business School. Funded by the ESRC, the seminar series put together by the Universities of Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Oxford, and led by the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER) at Strathclyde, will bring together academics, policy makers and practitioners to discuss existing research on bad jobs, generate policy proposals and identify new research agendas over 2010-2011.

The four seminars centre on key questions: what makes jobs 'bad', how can bad jobs be made more bearable, how can exit routes from bad jobs be created, and what policy interventions might make bad jobs better.

Speakers at the first seminar on March 5 were Harvard economist Professor Richard B Freeman, as well as Dr David Holman of Sheffield, Dr Sian Moore of London Metropolitan, Dr Caroline Lloyd, Cardiff and Professor Chris Warhurst of Strathclyde. The focus was on economic, psychological and sociological perspectives on job quality and more than 50 academics, policy makers and practitioners attended the lecture.

Here, Professor Warhurst of SCER in the Department of Human Resource Management, talks about this area of research, its importance and ultimate goals.

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