What makes a good job?
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Where have all the good jobs gone? With the shift from manufacturing to service sector jobs in many industrialised countries, Audrey Tinline and guests look at whether some jobs are providing a better quality of work than others. Many people now expect to have a number of different jobs, or even careers, across their working lives - have we lost something in not having a job for life? Or have we gained new freedoms to re-invent ourselves? Contributors: Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School Leda Glyptis, Chief of Staff at 11:FS Louise Carter-King, Mayor of Gillette, Wyoming Dave Proctor, Programme Leader in Trade Union Education, Ruskin College, Oxford Picture: Coal Mining In Gillette, Wyoming. (Credit: Getty Images 2004)
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