Edited by Daniel Wheatley, Reader in Business and Labour Economics, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents:1 Introduction: Researching the Quality of Working LivesDaniel WheatleyPART I RESEARCHING THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIVES: PHILOSOPHICAL, CONCEPTUAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS2. Generating and Measuring Impact: Insights from Research on the Quality of Working LivesCarol Atkinson3. Using a Lifecourse Approach to Research Patterns of Paid and Unpaid WorkIrene Hardill and Daniel Wheatley4. Reviewing Measurement Instruments in Job Insecurity Research: Perceived Job Insecurity and the Gender Lens PerspectivePinar Bayhan Karapinar, Selin Metin Camgöz and Ozge Tayfur Ekmekci5. Accessing and understanding autism spectrum conditions in the workplaceAnne Cockayne6. Research ethics and the “elephant in the room”: encountering violence in fieldwork concerning unpaid labourIrene SotiropoulouPART II QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS ON THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIVES7. Accessing ‘Hard to Reach Groups’ and Emotions in the Research Process: ‘Work an Honest Day and Get the Usual Raw Deal’Andrew Smith and Jo McBride8. Using Discursive Methods to Research the Quality of Working LivesCath Sullivan9. Observing Neo-Villeiny and other Forms of Non-Standard WorkGeraint Harvey10. Ethnographic Methods with Limited Access: Assessing Quality of Work in Hard to Reach JobsAdam Badger and Jamie Woodcock11. Using Case Study Research to Capture the Quality of Working LivesJohn Burgess and Julia Connell12. Combining gendered strategies, a narrative approach and coaching: examining the effect of behavioural ambidexterity on individual well-being and high performance workAni Raiden and Christine RäisänenPART III QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS ON THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIVES21013. Effective Use of Secondary Quantitative Data SourcesChris Lawton14. Secondary data analysis of large survey data: researching the quality of paid and unpaid working livesTracey Warren15. Quantitative Methods of Examining the Impact of the Physical Work EnvironmentElizabeth J. Sander, Alannah E. Rafferty and Peter J. Jordan16. Using the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition to Quantitatively Assess the Gender Pay GapMichaela Fuchs, Anja Rossen, Antje Weyh and Gabriele Wydra-Somaggio17. Econometric Analysis of Educational Mismatch and Earnings using Survey Data from GhanaChristian K. Darko and Kennedy K. AbrokwaPART IV MIXED METHODS RESEARCH ON THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIVES18. Use of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods to Research Migrant Workers in Low-Skilled WorkAnne Green19. Conducting Small Scale Primary Mixed Methods Research into the Impacts of Work-Related TravelCraig Bickerton20. Evaluating New Techniques of Evidence-Based Management using Narrative Evidence SynthesisAdrian Madden, Catherine Bailey, Luke Fletcher and Kerstin Alfes21. Using Occupational History Calendars in Semi-Structured Interviews to Capture Long Working Lives: a Small Sample Approach using Sequence AnalysisFiona Carmichael, Jo Duberley and Lorna PorcellatoIndex

'Rapid and profound transformations in work have made understanding the quality of working lives a pressing concern for social scientists and policymakers. This Handbook is an indispensable source of information on the methodological and multidisciplinary strategies needed to study the impacts of changes in both paid and unpaid work.'--Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US