Health Effects of the New Labour Market

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Isaksson, Kerstin. (Editor), Hogstedt, Christer. (Editor), Eriksson, Charli. (Editor), Theorell, T©œres. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Sociology.; Health psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Sociology, general.; Health Psychology.
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The background for the international research conference ỚSHealth Hazards and Challenges in the New Working LifeỚ<U+00fd> was the emerging questions concerning the health and social effects of the rapid changes in the labour market leading to increasing long-term unemployment, temporary em...

Table of Contents:

• Unemployment and Downsizing
• Opening Address
• A Social Scientist for and in the Real World: An Introduction to the Address by Professor Marie Jahoda
• Unemployment and Mental Health: Hazards and Challenges of Psychology in the Community
• Unemployment and Health Care Utilization
• Unemployment and Social Networks among Young Persons in Sweden
• On Empowerment and Health Effects of Temporary Alternative Empolyment
• Empowerment, Learning and Social Action during Unemployment
• Repeated Downsizing: Attitudes and Well-being for Surviving Personnel in a Swedish Retail Company
• Flexibilization and Stress
• Work Life and Organizational Changes and How They are Perceived by the Employees
• Enclosure in Human Services: The Panopticon of Dentistry
• The Impact of Organizational Changes on the Psychological Contract and Attitudes Towards Work in Four Health Care Organizations
• Alternative Work Arrangements
• Telework in Perspective Ớ New Challenges to Occupational Health and Safety
• The Relationship between Precarious Employment and Patterns of Occupational Violence
• New Working Time Arrangements, Health and Well-being
• Determinants of the Attitude to Work and Subjective Health
• Emotional Exhaustion Depersonalization and Health in Two Swedish Human Service Organizations
• Opportunities and Constraints in the Labour Market
• The Polarization of the Labour Market and the Exclusion of Vulnerable Groups
• The Quality of Work: The Work-Family Interface
• From School to Work in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s for Early School Leavers
• Work Values and Early Work Socialization among Nurses and Engineers
• Occupational Hazards in the Informal Sector Ớ A Global Perspective.