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The 2012 Geary Lecture 'Skill, Job Control and the Quality of Work: the Changing Research Agenda'Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2 Date: 22/02/2012
The 2012 ESRI Geary Lecture will be delivered by Professor Duncan Gallie, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. The lecture examines the contrasting visions of the trends in the quality of work that have dominated the sociological debate over the last fifty years. It focuses particularly on arguments about changes in skill and job control, which have been seen as crucial both for employee motivation and well-being. It shows the very substantial progress that has been made in recent decades in British research in providing empirical evidence about the changing nature of work. This has helped to resolve some of the most controversial issues in the debate, but at the same time has raised major new issues for the research agenda. Different national studies appear to reveal rather different patterns of change over time and there is evidence of significant differences between countries in work quality. It argues that future progress in the field depends on the growth of cross-national comparative research. Download Slides. Professor Duncan Gallie CBE FBA is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and Professor of Sociology in the University of Oxford. His research has focused on comparative European studies of the quality of employment and of unemployment. He served as Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the British Academy (2006-2011). He was a member of the EU Advisory Group on ‘Social Sciences and Humanities in the European Research Area’ for the Sixth Framework Programme. Booking |
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