ABSTRACT
This chapter sketches conditions of employment and work in the countries under review, making use of the results of the questionnaire surveys and of the case studies. Even when the aim of the project was to study the functioning of worker participation and representation, almost all research teams widened their research operations to include questions of employment, income, and conditions at the places of work – as these inevitably were recurrent major issues in participation and representation. The studies on conditions of work are in most APADEP reports confined to the respondents of the questionnaire surveys. In several reports, observations and interviews during case studies are also reported.
