Job quality and the economics of New Labour: a critical appraisal using subjective survey data
从政治经济学视角，利用多项主观调查数据评估新工党政府早期的工作质量变化，发现1998-2004年有所改善，但主要源于低失业率而非政策，且大量工人仍处于低质量岗位。
This paper assesses the record on job quality during the early term of office of the New Labour government by interpreting, from a political economy perspective, changes in a variety of subjective measures of job quality taken from several different data sources. We find some improvements in job quality over the period 1998-2004; however we argue that these improvements have arisen not because of New Labour's policies towards the workplace but because of low and falling rates of unemployment. Despite recent improvements, a large number of workers in Britain remain in low quality jobs and, without a radical change of policy direction, sustained and substantial progress in the quality of work will remain elusive.