Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe

Workers’ Involvement at the workplace

and Job Quality in Europe

María C. González

Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe

A Network of Excellence of the European Commission’s
Sixth Framework Programme
María C. González:

Workers’ Involvement at the workplace and Job Quality in Europe.

REC-WP 08/2009
Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe
RECWOWE Publication, Dissemination and Dialogue Centre, Edinburgh

© 2009 by the author(s)

The Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe series seeks to
promote the diffusion of research and research integration activities taking place within
the network and being produced by other researchers working on issues of work and
welfare in Europe.
Working papers are published either within the framework of a series of closed calls,
which follow the different stages in the life-cycle of the network’s activities, or as part of
an open call, which aims to privilege both research focussed on cross-national
comparative analysis of the various tensions between work and welfare and research
focussed on the role of the European level in addressing these tensions.
All papers are peer-reviewed.

The Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe are published
online by the Publication, Dissemination and Dialogue Centre (PUDIAC) of RECWOWE.
They can be downloaded at
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RECWOWE / PUDIAC on the internet:

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About the author

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Introduction: main debates and European policy on workers’

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