Just for bread? Quality of work and job satisfaction: A multidimensional approach

The linkage between the quality of a job and worker satisfaction is not obvious. Workers judge the quality of their job on the basis of a complex interweaving of individual, cultural, social and economic factors, and this is why to different levels of satisfaction may correspond the same objective characteristics. Moreover, the requirements that contribute to defining a 'good' job are largely discretional and they are subject to many rethinks related to the contingencies in which they are proposed. Starting from the Italian data of the sixth wave of the European Working Condition Survey, a set of job quality indicators is proposed and related to the general satisfaction with one's job.