It’s Been A Hard Day’s Night: The Concentration and Intensification of Work in Late Twentieth-Century Britain

By F. Green. 2001

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Subfields: Finance, Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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Learning through working life: self and individuals’ agentic action (2005, neutral): “…economic activity, structural adjustments in global economic activity and capacities now require individuals in paid employment to continuously develop further their skills throughout their working lives (Green, 2001) to contribute to sustaining the level and scope of national economic well-being.”
Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well-being (2009, neutral): “Similar trends have been reported in Australia (Wooden 2002; Wooden and Drago 2007), Canada (Sheridan et al. 2001), Japan (Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 2004), New Zealand (Callister 2005) and the UK (Green 2001).”
Trends in Perceived Job Quality, 1989 to 1998 (2005, background): “Claims regarding increased work loads and stress are more disputed, although there is agreement that new quality control techniques, often criticized as work intensification devices, diffused widely in the 1980s and 1990s (Bluestone & Rose, 1998; Cappelli & Neumark, 2001; Graham, 1993; Mishel et al.”
Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries (2005, neutral): “With respect to effort, both Green (2001) and Green and McIntosh (2001) find evidence, from subjective data, of increasing work effort in the UK.”
Labour Power and Labour Process: Contesting the Marginality of the Sociology of Work (2009, background): “Insecurity in the labour market may have been overstated (see Fevre, 2007), but sources of insecurity and pressure in the labour process are attested to in a growing range of studies (Burchell et al., 2002; Green, 2001; Heery and Salmon, 2000).”
Normalized Intensity: The New Labour Process of Middle Management (2008, neutral): “…Adamson et al. (1998), Beynon et al. (2002), Brown and Lauder (2001), Cascio (1993, 2002), Eastman (1998), Fraser (2001), Gallie et al. (2001), Green (2001), Harrison (1994), Heckscher (1995), McGovern et al. (1998), Ogbonna and Wilkinson (2003), Rubery et al. (2002), Sahdev (2004), Scase and…”
Work‐life balance as source of job dissatisfaction and withdrawal attitudes: An exploratory study on the views of male workers (2007, background): “Work-life balance has emerged as a major theme during the last two decades, which witnessed a substantial intensification of work caused by economic uncertainty, organisational restructuring, and increase in business competition ( Green, 2001”
The mobile phone, perpetual contact and time pressure (2009, background): “For many years now, Francis Green and his collaborators have argued that the introduction of ICTs into the workplace is associated with a significant transformation of work (Green, 2001, 2004a, 2004b; Green and McIntosh, 1998; Green et al., 2000).”
Disconnected Capitalism: Or Why Employers Can't Keep Their Side of the Bargain (2003, background): “threats to their pensions, damaging perceptions of the effort bargain and psychological contract in the process (Beynon et al., 2002; Biewener, 1997; Burchell et al., 1999; Green, 2001).”
Why is Organizational Change Related to Workplace Bullying? Role Conflict and Job Insecurity as Mediators (2009, background): “Next, organizational change has been related to a high workload (Cooper, 1999; Green, 2001; Greenglass and Burke, 2001), role ambiguity and role conflict (Jick, 1985).”
Work-life balance – a neglected issue among Austrian female expatriates (2010, background): “Research shows clear evidence that the intensity of work reflected in perceived workload has increased since the early 1980s (Green 2001 ).”
Bringing it all back home : the extensification and ‘overflowing’ of work : the case of San Francisco’s new media households (2006, neutral): “Debates in the industrial relations literature have explored these issues more generally, however, as Hyman et al (2003) note, analysis by Green (2001) for example is confined to the parameters of the ‘working day’.”
Employee performance, well‐being, and differential effects of human resource management subdimensions: Mutual gains or conflicting outcomes? (2018, background): “As a considerable amount of evidence has established high job demands to be an important antecedent of stress (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007; Green, 2001; Kroon et al., 2009; Ogbonnaya et al., 2017), any reduction in job demands will likely make employees less susceptible to stressful work conditions.”
Why Has Work Effort Become More Intense (2004, neutral): “I computed the change in mean effort levels 16 between 1992 and 1997, using the Employment in Britain survey of 1992 and the Skills Survey of 1997 (see Green, 2001) for 12 single-digit industries.”
The performance effects of coaching: a multilevel analysis using hierarchical linear modeling (2009, background): “Increased time pressure and workloads (Green 2001, 2006) lead managers to be more focused on their business-related activities rather than on developing the relationship with their employees and developing a foundation for long-term performance.”