Quality of Life and Work in Europe

1. Quality of Life and Work in a Changing Europe
Tanja Lippe, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund

Part I. Context, Theory and Methods

2. Quality of Life and Work in a Changing Europe: A Theoretical Framework
Laura Dulk, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Suzan Lewis, Dorottya Redai

3. The Institutional Context of the Quality of Life
Siyka Kovacheva, Anneke Doorne-Huiskes, Timo Anttila

4. Data and Methods
Tanja Lippe, Stefan Szücs, Sonja Drobnič, Leila Billquist

Part II. Empirical Results

5. Quality of Work and Quality of Life of Service Sector Workers: Cross-national Variations in Eight European Countries
Patrick Präg, Maria Dores Guerreiro, Jouko Nätti, Michael Brookes, Laura Dulk

6. Quality of Life and Satisfaction with the Work-life Balance
Stefan Szücs, Sonja Drobnič, Laura Dulk, Roland Verwiebe

7. Variations in Work-life Balance Satisfaction among Service Sector Employees
Barbara Beham, David Etherington, Eduardo Rodrigues

8. Competing Demands: Work and Child Well-being
Linda Lane, Tanja Lippe, Stanimir Kabaivanov, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund

9. Gender Differences in Quality of Life
Eva Fodor, Linda Lane, Joop Schippers, Tanja Lippe

Part III. Policy Implications and the Future Research Agenda

10. Healthy Organizations
Suzan Lewis, Anneke Doorne-Huiskes, Dorottya Redai, Margarida Barroso

11. Scenarios for the Quality of Life in the Europe of the Future
Maria Dores Guerreiro, Annabelle Mark, Leila Billquist, Polina Manolova

12. The Social Quality Instrument: Measuring the Social Quality of Work in European Workplaces
Sakari Taipale, Barbara Beham, Jouko Nätti

13. Quality of Life and Work in a Changing Europe: Future Challenges
Anneke Doorne-Huiskes, Laura Dulk

Keywords: Social Sciences, Politics of the Welfare State, European Culture, Political Sociology, Sociology of Work, Social Work, Social Structure, Social Inequality