Health Effects of the New Labour Market

ISBN 10: 0306463008 / ISBN 13: 9780306463006

Editore: Springer, 1999

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This text is the proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Hazards and Challenges in the New Working Life, held January 11-13, 1999, in Stockholm, Sweden. The globalization of the economies has enormous implications for work and labour market structures. Demands for rapid adjustment and flexibility can be perceived as threatening to the employees' need for security and can cause ill health, but it is also important to try to foresee the possible benefits that could result and the constructive adaptations that individuals make. These changing conditions raise new issues and research questions concerning health consequences and people's actions and constructive adaptation. The interdisciplinary research conference in Stockholm on Health Hazards and Challenges in the New Working Life covered areas such as health and social consequences of unemployment, job insecurity, labour market constraints, flexibility in working conditions, and new forms of employment relations and contracts. The proceedings give an overview of the latest research results on these issues, which will be relevant to working life in the next millennium. The book presents a selection of contributions from researchers in psychology, occupational health and sociology and covers three main sections: unemployment and downsizing, flexibilization and stress, and opportunities and constraints in the labour market. It provides a summary and overview of earlier research, together with new findings about adaptation and actions among the unemployed, the effects of new and changing employment contracts upon health, and the polarization of the labour market and its exclusion of vulnerable groups.

Contenuti: Preface. Introduction. Part 1: Unemployment and Downsizing. Opening address; M. Jahoda. A social scientist for and in the real world: An introduction to the address by professor Marie Jahoda; D. Fryer. Unemployment and Mental Health: Hazards and Challenges of Psychology in the community; D. Fryer. Unemployment and Health Care Utilization; A. Kraut, et al. Unemployment and Social Networks among young persons in Sweden; U. Arnell-Gustafsson. On Empowerment and Health Effects of Temporary Alternative Employment; H. Westerlund. Empowerment, Learning and Social Action during Unemployment; L. Levi. Repeated Downsizing: Attitudes and Well-being for Surviving Personnel in A Swedish Retail Company; K. Isaksson, et al. Part 2: Flexibilization and Stress. Work Life and organizational Changes and how they are Perceived by the employees; A. Härenstam, et al. Enclosure in Human Services: The Panopticon of Dentistry; E. Bejerot, B. Söderfeldt. The Impact of Organizational Changes of the Psychological Contract and Attitudes towards Work in Four Health Care Organizations; R. Schalk, C. Freese. Alternative Work Arrangement: Job Stress, Well-being and Work Attitudes among Employees with Different Emplyment Contracts; M. Sverke, et al. Telework in Perspective - New Challenges to Occupational Health and Safety; M. Ertel, et al. The Relationship between Precarious Employment and Patterns of Occupational Violence: Survey Evidence from Seven Occupations; C. Mayhew, M. Quinlan. New Working Time Arrangements, Performance and Health; T. Åkerstedt, et al. Determinants of the Attitudes to Work and Subjective Health; G. Kecklund, et al. Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization and Health in Two Swedish Human Service Organizations; M. Söderfeldt.Part 3: Opportunities and Constraints in the Labour Market. The Polarization of the Labour Market and Exclusion of Vulnerable Groups; D. Gallie. The Quality of Work: The Work-Family Interface; R. Schouteten, M. de Witte. From School to Work in The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s of Early School Leavers; Å. Murray. Work Values and Early Work Socialisation among Nurses and Engineers; T. Hagström, A. Kjellberg. Occupational Hazards in the Informal Sector-A Global Perspective; R. Loewenson. Index.

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Titolo: Health Effects of the New Labour Market
Casa editrice: Springer
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Brand New