Working in the Service Sector
Working in the Service Sector

Author: Gerhard Bosch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1134456441

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Chapter 1 Introduction -- part Part I Different service societies in Europe -- chapter 2 Measuring economic tertiarisation -- chapter 3 The incidence of new forms of employment in service activities -- chapter 4 Why do countries have such different service-sector employment rates -- chapter 5 Services and the employment prospects for women -- part PART II The organisation of service work: an analysis of five sectors -- chapter 6 The family, the state, and now the market -- chapter 7 The reluctant nurses -- chapter 8 Work hard, play hard -- chapter 9 Work organisation and the importance of labour markets in the European retail trade -- chapter 10 Lean banking -- part Part III Common challenges -- chapter 11 The shaping of work and working time in the service sector -- chapter 12 The delegation of uncertainty -- chapter 13 Can trade unions meet the challenge -- chapter 14 Diversity and regulation of markets for services.

At Your Service?
At Your Service?

Author: Gaurav Nayyar

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2021-10-18

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1464817103

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Manufacturing-led development has provided the traditional model for creating jobs and prosperity. But in the past three decades the conventional pattern of structural transformation has changed, with the services sector growing faster than the manufacturing sector. This raises critical questions about the ability of developing economies to close productivity gaps with advanced economies and to create good jobs for more people. At Your Service? The Promise of Services-Led Development (www.worldbank.org/services-led-development) assesses the scope of a services-driven development model and policy directions that can maximize the model’s potential.

Working in the Service Sector
Working in the Service Sector

Author: Gerhard Bosch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1134456433

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The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the service sector is the only one in which employment will grow in future. The reasons for this is the subject of much controversy and debate, the outcomes of which are not merely of academic interest but of decisive importance for economic policy and the quality of working and living conditions in future. In order to examine these various arguments, research teams from eight European countries worked together for three years on a comparative study of the evolution of service sector employment in EU member states. They also investigated working and employment conditions in five very different service industries (banking, retailing, hospitals, IT services and care of the elderly) in a number of countries, and the results of their research are presented in this informative new collection, of interest to students academics and researchers involved in all aspects of industrial economics.

Working in the Service Society
Working in the Service Society

Author: Cameron Lynne Macdonald

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9781566394802

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Essays and case studies on "the problems of organizing and new models of unionism ... in the context of women's work culture, multiracial workplaces, contingent and part-time work, and participatory innovations to improve service and experience of work simultaneously."--Back cover.

Work Appropriation of Low-Wage Workers in the Service Sector
Work Appropriation of Low-Wage Workers in the Service Sector

Author: Antonia Kupfer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-03-14

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1035321688

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Work Appropriation of Low-Wage Workers in the Service Sector deftly explores how supermarket clerks perceive their work when faced with meagre pay and frequently precarious working conditions. Speaking substantively on current social problems within clerksÕ livelihoods, this essential book provides a fascinating comparison between German and US-based low-wage worker experiences.

Extraordinary Jobs in the Service Sector
Extraordinary Jobs in the Service Sector

Author: Alecia T. Devantier

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1438111789

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Ever wonder who wrangles the animals during a movie shoot? What it takes to be a brewmaster? How that play-by-play announcer got his job? What it is like to be a secret shopper? The new.

Innovation, Employment, and Firm Performance in the German Service Sector
Innovation, Employment, and Firm Performance in the German Service Sector

Author: Ulrich Kaiser

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 364257453X

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Empirical and theoretical evidence on the German service sector is inversely related to its growing overall importance for the entire economy. This monograph offers a comprehensive theory-based econometric treatment of three important and severely understudied issues related to services: innovative activity, the effects of innovation on the demand for labour, and the performance of newly founded firms. In addition, the book contains detailed descriptive statistics on innovative activity, skill mix as well as on growth and current economic importance. It offers researchers, policy makers, and practitioners a unique opportunity to gain knowledge on the new German service economy.