Better Work

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The importance of better work.- Part 1. Good work: development and current status.- Chapter 3 Control over income.- Chapter 4 Control over work.- Chapter 5 Control in life.- Part 2. Work for all.- Chapter 6 Everyone into work.- Part 3. The new societal mission.- Chapter 7. Room to choose good work.- Chapter 8 Better work: conclusions and recommendations.- Bibliography.

Monique Kremer is a professor of active citizenship, department of sociology, University of Amsterdam, chair of the migration advisory board, and was previously employed at the WRR. She has published numerous books on a variety of topics, such as How welfare states care (2007, Amsterdam University Press), People, Policy and the New Pofessional (2006) and Vreemden in de verzorgingsstaat (2016, Strangers in the Welfare Sttate).

Robert Went (1955) works at the WRR since 2007. He has attained a doctorate in economics with a dissertation on globalization (Routledge 2002). Before he joined the WRR, he has worked among others at the Dutch court of audit (Algemene Rekenkamer) as a project manager. He has written a lot about economic issues for the general public, and is very active on twitter (@went1955). He is also a member of the board of Rethinking Economics in The Netherlands. 



Godfried Engbersen, is a professor of sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and acouncil member of the WRR. Key themes in his research are social inequality and international migration. He published numerous books, among which (with others) A Continent Moving West: EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe (Amsterdam University Press 2010); Beyond Networks. Feedback in International Migration (Palgrave 2016), and Cultures of Unemployment (Routledge 2019).