The nuanced nature of work quality : evidence from rural Newfoundland and Ireland

This article explores the relationship between job and work quality and argues that while it is important to examine job quality, to understand workers’ experiences fully, the focus should be on the broader concept of work quality, which places the job against its wider socio-economic context. Based on the experiences of 88 rural workers gathered via interviews in Newfoundland and Ireland, it appears that the same or similar jobs can be regarded very differently depending upon the context in which they are embedded, as people at different locations and/or stages of life have an individual set of aspirations, expectations and life experiences. The study found that the factors that affect work quality are moulded by broader aspects of life – family, friends, community, lifestyle and past experiences – that shape an individual

PUBLIC-SECTOR INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS ON THE EVE OF MASS PRIVATIZATION IN TURKEY

This paper examines public sector industrial relations and employment practices in Turkey in the light of the privatization programme under way since 1984. It starts by discussing how the s\stem of public sector industrial relations was prepared for privatization during the 1980s, with major changes in trade union structure, collective bargaining and employment patterns, Actual privatization has so far been limited and has therefore not in itself had a major impact on industrial relations. However. the new Government of Ms. Tansu Ciller, which took office in June 1993, intends to accelerate the pace of privatization