Publicaties

This article examines how labour shapes the relationship between Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and the quality of working life (QWL) via a 2-by-2 comparative study in the truck and car components subsectors in Belgium and the Netherlands. We conceptualize labour as a strategic agent that frames QWL challenges, mobilizes power resources, and shapes bargaining outcomes. Distinct production regimes – flexibility-driven in trucks and automation-based in car ...

OBJECTIVES: The aims of the study were to evaluate whether the Healthy Working Approach was implemented as planned and to gain insight into perceived positive outcomes and barriers and facilitators to the implementation. METHODS: We conducted a mixed methods process evaluation on a team-based approach for sustainable employability of long-term care workers. We examined context, recruitment, reach, dose delivered, dose received, fidelity, ...

Purpose – Revitalisation of Quality of Working Life (QWL) research points to non-standard work such as remote platform work as a compelling setting where research on QWL is needed. Whereas the literature on working conditions in remote work platforms is rich, knowledge on the topic is fragmented. This systematic review aims to synthesize and integrate findings from existing literature, to offer an encompassing and multidimensional understanding ...

Enkele verzetsdaden en -lieden komen aan de orde: het verspreiden van een bisschoppelijke brief door de kapelaans Sjang Cramers en Sjef Janssen, het kalken van leuzen door Eduard Mattheijssen, Door Joosten, Jo Nabben & Bram Slikker, Paulus Paulusma, en Hen Thissen. Intrigerend is het geval van Toén in 't Zandt, tijdelijk plaatsvervanger van de Venlose burgemeester: was hij een 'goede collaborateur'? Verder wordt kort ingegaan op de ...

Blerick had op 10 mei 1940 elf Joodse inwoners. Hun lotgevallen gedurende WO II komen aan de orde. Het accent ligt op de Joodse onderduikers. Zij kwamen via verschillende kanalen in Blerick, en overleefden allemaal.

Digital platforms provide many workers with vital income and offer the promise of flexible work, and yet also contribute to experiences of precariousness and exploitation, particularly with regard to pressures to undertake unpaid work. This article explores why unpaid labour is necessary and what drives its extent and form among diverse types of digital platforms. We theorize two ideal types of ‘open’ and ‘closed’ socio-technical platform ...